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Title: Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture
Author: Seamus Heaney Publisher: Farrar Straus Giroux Printing Year: 1996 Signed first edition Condition/Details: Bound in cream-colored cloth with bright black embossing, this volume is a scarce autographed copy of the Irish poet's address in Stockholm upon receiving the Nobel Prize in Literature for 1995. In his speech, Heaney offers a consideration of the function and relevance of poetry that reads in part: ".. poetry can make an order as true to the impact of external reality and as sensitive to the inner laws of the poet's being as the ripples that rippled in and rippled out across the water in that scullery bucket fifty years ago. An order where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew. An order which satisfies all that is appetitive in the intelligence and prehensile in the affections. I credit poetry, in other words, both for being itself and for being a help, for making possible a fluid and restorative relationship between the mind's centre and its circumference, between the child gazing at the word "Stockholm" on the face of the radio dial and the man facing the faces that he meets in Stockholm at this most privileged moment. I credit it because credit is due to it, in our time and in all time, for its truth to life, in every sense of that phrase." Heaney's signature appears on the half-title page. The volume is in fine condition, and is solidly bound with clean pages. Illustrated dustjacket is in glassine cover. The book measures approximately 5" x 7.75" and contains 54 pages. Shipping cost (within the U.S.) for this lot will be: $4.50 ImagesClick on thumbnails to see larger images:
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