Stepping Stones

By: Seamus Heaney

Narrated by: Seamus Heaney

Recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, poet Seamus Heaney brings beautiful focus to life in Ireland. Through his poetry, he encapsulates the country’s historical and political details while connecting it to the personal lives of the citizens.(P) and ©1990 Penguin Audiobooks

It's Seamus Heaney

Would anything I said really make it even more Seamus Heaney? Those who buy this book do so because their mind and heart have formed a lovers' conspiracy and in their subterfuge they compel the body--possesed by this desire for the authentic. Their tryst is in the listening of it.

A gentle, gracious and personal performance

Forget the machinations of celebrity. This poet speaks to you as a friend. He shares the poems and he shares a few details of his experience in writing them,, with minimal jargon. He is talking to a reader, not to someone merely trying to pass an examination. No wonder he is very popular. I like his work even more after hearing these through his own voice.

Beautiful lines in the Poet’s own voice.

While the quality of the recording is poor, Heaney’s voice resonates with the beauty of his words. I could listen to his brogue forever as he paints pictures of his land, his parents, and friends lost to the Troubles. His humanity burns through his verse and his introductions and reflections provide context that completes the experience.

Last of the Irish Renaissance poets

Seamus Heaney represents the end of an era, the last of a direct line back to W.B. Yeats and Lady Gregory to 1870. Although regarded as a poet in the tradition of the Irish Renaissance, he is not an Irish Romantic. Heaney is a nostalgic realist.

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A great book

A wonderful book that I found to be developmental and maturative for a young man coming of age such as myself. I found this book to be relatable and really well read. The intonations and inflections are really perfect. I further highly recommend this book.