''Electric Light'' (
Faber and Faber
Faber and Faber Limited, usually abbreviated to Faber, is an independent publishing house in London. Published authors and poets include T. S. Eliot (an early Faber editor and director), W. H. Auden, Margaret Storey, William Golding, Samuel B ...
, 2001, ) is a poetry collection by
Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995
Nobel Prize in Literature
)
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, awarded_for = Outstanding contributions in literature
, presenter = Swedish Academy
, holder = Annie Ernaux (2022)
, location = Stockholm, Sweden
, year = 1901
, ...
. The collection explores childhood, nature, and poetry itself.
Part one presents translations and adaptations, occasional and celebratory poems, and verse about travel in the
Gaeltacht, the
Balkans and
Greece. Part two of the collection consists of elegies for poets (
Ted Hughes,
Joseph Brodsky
Iosif Aleksandrovich Brodsky (; russian: link=no, Иосиф Александрович Бродский ; 24 May 1940 – 28 January 1996) was a Russian and American poet and essayist.
Born in Leningrad (now Saint Petersburg), USSR in 1940, ...
, and
Zbigniew Herbert
Zbigniew Herbert (; 29 October 1924 – 28 July 1998) was a Polish poet, essayist, drama writer and moralist. He is one of the best known and the most translated post-war Polish writers. While he was first published in the 1950s (a volume title ...
), and Heaney's relatives and friends.
Heaney has been recorded reading this collection on the ''
Seamus Heaney Collected Poems'' album.
Contents
* At Toomebridge
* Perch
* Lupins
* Out of the Bag 1
* Out of the Bag 2
* Out of the Bag 3
* Out of the Bag 4
* Bann Valley Eclogue
* Montana
* The Loose Box
* Turpin Song
* The Border Campaign
* Known World
* The Little Canticles of Asturias 1
* The Little Canticles of Asturias 2
* The Little Canticles of Asturias 3
* Ballynahinch Lake
* The Clothes Shrine
* Red, White and Blue 1. Red
* Red, White and Blue 2. White
* Red, White and Blue 3. Blue
* Virgil: Eclogue IX
* Glanmore Eclogue
* Sonnets from Hellas 1. Into Arcadia
* Sonnets from Hellas 2. Conkers
* Sonnets from Hellas 3. Pylos
* Sonnets from Hellas 4. The Augean Stables
* Sonnets from Hellas 5. Castalian Spring
* Sonnets from Hellas 6. Desfina
* The Gaeltacht
* The Real Name
* The Bookcase
* Vitruviana
* Ten Glosses 1. The Marching Season
* Ten Glosses 2. The Catechism
* Ten Glosses 3. The Bridge
* Ten Glosses 4. A Suit
* Ten Glosses 5. The Party
* Ten Glosses 6. W. H. Auden 1907-73
* Ten Glosses 7. The Lesson
* Ten Glosses 8. Moling's Gloss
* Ten Glosses 9. Colly
* Ten Glosses 10. A Norman Simile
* The Fragment
* On His Work in the English Tongue (1)
* On His Work in the English Tongue (2)
* On His Work in the English Tongue (3)
* On His Work in the English Tongue (4)
* On His Work in the English Tongue (5)
* Audenesque
* To the Shade of Zbigniew Herbert
* 'Would They Had Stay'd'
* Late in the Day
* Arion
* Bodies and Souls
* Clonmany to Ahascragh
* Sruth
* Seeing the Sick
* Electric Light
External links
Lux perpetua: Seamus Heaney on the making of his collection, ''Electric Light''Ten Glosses: Verse by Seamus Heaney
2001 poetry books
Irish poetry collections
Poetry by Seamus Heaney
Faber and Faber books
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