Download or read book Preoccupations written by Seamus Heaney and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-01-13 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney's first collection of prose, Preoccupations, begins with a vivid account of his early years on his father's farm in Northern Ireland and his coming of age as a student and teacher in Belfast. Subsequent essays include critical work on Gerard Manley Hopkins, William Wordsworth, John Keats, Robert Lowell, William Butler Yeats, John Montague, Patrick Kavanagh, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill, and Philip Larkin.