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Informationen zum Autor Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground , Electric Light , Beowulf , The Spirit Level , District and Circle , and Finders Keepers . Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Ted Hughes , the author of numerous books of poetry, prose, and translation, was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II until his death in 1998. His last book of poems, Birthday Letters , won the Whitbread Book of the Year award-and was a much-discussed national bestseller. He lived in Devon, England. Klappentext The Rattle Bag is an anthology of poetry (mostly in English but occasionally in translation) for general readers and students of all ages and backgrounds. These poems have been selected by the simple yet telling criteria that they are the personal favorites of the editors, themselves two of contemporary literature's leading poets. Moreover, Heaney and Hughes have elected to list their favorites not by theme or by author but simply by title (or by first line, when no title is given). As they explain in their Introduction: "We hope that our decision to impose an arbitrary alphabetical order allows the contents [of this book] to discover themselves as we ourselves gradually discovered them--each poem full of its singular appeal, transmitting its own signals, taking its chances in a big, voluble world." With undisputed masterpieces and rare discoveries, with both classics and surprises galore, The Rattle Bag includes the work of such key poets as William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, Lewis Carroll, Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Elizabeth Bishop, and Sylvia Plath among its hundreds of poems. A helpful Glossary as well as an Index of Poets and Works are offered at the conclusion of this hefty, unorthodox, diverse, inspired, and inspiring collection of poetry. The Rattle Bag , containing the favourite poems of Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, is a well-loved poetry anthology essential for the student and the expert alike. Zusammenfassung Edited by Seamus Heaney and Ted Hughes, and conceived of as a collection of their own favourite poems, The Rattle Bag has established itself as the classic anthology of our time. Inhaltsverzeichnis M-Z "The Names of the Hare," Anon "Napoleon," Walter de la Mare "'A narrow Fellow in the Grass,'" Emily Dickinson "Nature's Lineaments," Robert Graves "'nobody loses all the time,'" e. e. cummings "The North Ship," Philip Larkin "The Nose," Iain Crichton Smith "'Now entertain conjecture of a time,'" William Shakespeare "Nutting," William Wordsworth "The Octopus," Ogden Nash "Ode to a Nightingale," John Keats "Of Poor B. B.," Bertolt Brecht "The Old Familiar Faces," Charles Lamb "'An old man stirs the fire to a blaze,'" W. B. Yeats "Old Men," Ogden Nash "Omens," Anon "On a Tree Fallen Across the Road," Robert Frost "On Buying a Horse," Anon "On My First Sonne," Ben Jonson "On the Beach at Fontana," James Joyce "On the Cards and Dice," Sir Walter Ralegh "On the Congo," Harry Edmund Martinson "On Wenlock Edge," A. E. Housman "'One Christmas-time,'" William Wordsworth "'Our revels now are ended,'" William Shakespeare "Out in the Dark," Edward Thomas "'Out, Out-'" Robert Frost "The Owl," Edward Thomas "The Oxen," Thomas Hardy "The Ox-Tamer," Walt Whitman "Ozymandias," Percy Bysshe Shelley "Pangar Bàn," Anon "The Passionate Man's Pilgrimage," Sir Walter Ralegh "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," Christopher Marlowe and two replies: "The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd," Sir Walter Ralegh "The Baite," John Donne "Pat Cloherty's version of The Maisie," Richard Murphy...
