Seamus Heaney
Bibliography
| Poetry (a selection) |
| Eleven Poems. Belfast : Festival Publications, Queen’s University, 1965 |
| Death of a Naturalist. London : Faber, 1966 |
| A Lough Neagh Sequence. Didsbury, Manchester : Phoenix Pamphlets Poets Press, 1969 |
| Boy Driving His Father to Confession. Farnham, Surrey : Sceptre Press, 1970 (150 numbered copies) |
| Night Drive. Crediton, Devon : Richard Gilbertson, 1970 |
| Servant Boy. Detroit : Red Hanrahan Press, 1971 |
| Wintering Out. London : Faber, 1972 |
| Stations. Belfast : Ulsterman Publications, 1975 |
| North. London : Faber, 1975 |
| Bog Poems : London : Rainbow Press, 1975 |
| After Summer. Old Deerfield, Mass.: Deerfield Press / Dublin: Gallery Press, 1978 |
| Field Work. London : Faber, 1979 |
| Gravities : a Collection of Poems and Drawings. Newcastle upon Tyne : Charlotte Press, 1979 |
| Hedge School : Sonnets from Glanmore. Salem, Ore.: C. Seluzichi, 1979 |
| Selected Poems 1965-1975. London : Faber, 1980 |
| An Open Letter. Derry : Field Day, 1983 |
| Hailstones. Dublin : Gallery Press, 1984 |
| Station Island. London : Faber, 1984 |
| The Haw Lantern. Faber, 1987 |
| New Selected Poems 1966-1987. London : Faber, 1990 |
| The Tree Clock. Belfast : Linen Hall Library, 1990 |
| Seeing Things. London : Faber, 1991 |
| Keeping Going. Concord, N.H. : Bow and Arrow Press, 1993 |
| The Spirit Level. Faber, 1996 |
| Opened Ground : poems, 1966-1996. Faber, 1998 |
| Electric Light. London : Faber, 2001 |
| District and Circle. London : Faber, 2006 |
| Human Chain. London : Faber, 2010 |
| Prose, essays (a selection) |
| The Fire i’ the Flint : Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins. London : Oxford University Press, 1975 |
| Preoccupations : Selected Prose 1968-1978. London : Faber 1980 |
| The Government of the Tongue. London : Faber 1988 |
| The Place of Writing. Atlanta : Scholars Press, 1989 |
| The Redress of Poetry : Oxford lectures. London : Faber 1995 |
| Crediting Poetry : the Nobel lecture. London : Faber, 1995 |
| Finders Keepers : Selected Prose, 1971-2001. London : Faber, 2002 |
| Translations |
| Sweeney Astray : a Version From the Irish by Seamus Heaney. London : Faber, 1984 |
| The Cure at Troy : a version of Sophocles’ Philoctetes. Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1991 |
| The Midnight Verdict. Old Castle : Gallery Books, 1993 |
| Beowulf : a New Translation. London : Faber, 1999 |
| The Burial at Thebes : a Version of Sophocles’ Antigone. New York : Farrar, Straus, 2004 |
| Critical studies (a selection) |
| Morrison, Blake, Seamus Heaney. London : Methuen, 1982 |
| The Art of Seamus Heaney. Edited and introduced by Tony Curtis. Bridgend : Poetry Wales, 1982 |
| Seamus Heaney. Edited and with an introduction by Harold Bloom. New York : Chelsea House Publishers, 1986 |
| Foster, Thomas C., Seamus Heaney. Boston : Twayne, 1989 |
| Hart, Henry, Seamus Heaney : Poet of Contrary Progressions. Syracuse University Press, 1992 |
| Parker, Michael, Seamus Heaney : the Making of the Poet. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1993 |
| Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney. Edited by Robert F. Garratt. New York : G.K. Hall, 1995 |
| Seamus Heaney. Edited by Michael Allen. Basingstoke : Macmillan, 1997 |
| Vendler, Helen, Seamus Heaney. London : HarperCollins, 1998 |
| Corcoran, Neil, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney : a critical study. London : Faber, 1998 |
| Gilsenan Nordin, Irene, Crediting Marvels in Seamus Heaney’s Seeing Things. Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis, 1999 |
| Tobin, Daniel, Passage to the Center : Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. University Press of Kentucky, 1999 |
| Heaney, Seamus, Seamus Heaney in Conversation with Karl Miller. London : Between The Lines, 2000 |
| O’Brien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney : Creating Irelands of the Mind. Dublin : Liffey Press, 2002 |
| O’Brien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing. University Press of Florida, 2002 |
| Finn, Christine, Past Poetic : Archaeology and the Poetry of W.B. Yeats and Seamus Heaney. London : Duckworth, 2004 |
| Seamus Heaney : Poet, Critic, Translator / edited by Ashby Bland Crowder and Jason David Hall. – Basingstoke : Palgrav Macmillan, 2007 |
| Wilson, Michiko Niikuni, The marginal world of Oe Kenzaburo : a study in themes and techniques. – Armonk, N.Y. : Sharpe, 1986 |
| Brandes, Rand, & Durkan, Michael J., Seamus Heaney : a bibliography (1959-2003). London : Faber, 2008 |
| O’Driscoll, Dennis, Stepping stones : interviews with Seamus Heaney. London : Faber, 2008 |
| Hall, Jason David, Seamus Heaney’s Rhythmic Contract. Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009 |
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