Death Of A Naturalist Av Seamus Heaney

<p><i>For the fortieth anniversary of its publication, in May 2006, Faber are reissuing Seamus Heaney''s classic first collection, </i>Death of a Naturalist,<i> which on its appearance in 1966 won the Cholmondeley Award, the E.C. Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.<br></i>''His words give us the soil-reek of Ireland, the colourful violence of his childhood on a farm in Derry. The full-blooded energy of these poems makes <i>Death of a Naturalist</i> the best first book of poems I''ve read for some time.'' - C.B. Cox in the <i>Spectator</i><br>''The power and precision of his best poems are a delight, and as a first collection <i>Death of a Naturalist</i> is outstanding [...] His subject is those things which are inherent or inherited. What he praises is to be praised in his own work.'' - Christopher Ricks, <i>New Statesman<br></i>''Now, to pry into roots, to finger slime, <br>To stare big-eyed Narcissus, into some spring<br>Is beneath all adu