The collection contains ten separate books in .htm format (run index.htm to see front page): Door into the Dark (1972)Wintering Out (1972)Station Island (1984)The Haw Lantern (1987)New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1990)Death of a Naturalist (1991)Sweeney's Flight (1992)North (1992)The Spirit Level (1996)Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (1998) - all of them went out of print at Faber and Faber publishers. Seamus Justin Heaney -- Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irishrural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 - "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past".After graduating from Queen's University, Belfast (B.A., 1961), Heaney taught secondary school for a year and then lectured in colleges and universities in Belfast and Dublin. He became a member of the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980, soon after its founding by playwright Brian Friel and actor Stephen Rea. In 1982 he joined the faculty of Harvard University as visiting professor and, in 1985, became full professora post he retained while teaching at the University of Oxford (198994).Heaney's first poetry collection was the prizewinning Death of a Naturalist (1966).In this book and Door into the Dark (1969), he wrote in a traditional style about a passingway of lifethat of domestic rural life in Northern Ireland. In Wintering Out (1972) andNorth (1975), he began to encompass such subjects as the violence in Northern Ireland andcontemporary Irish experience, though he continued to view his subjects through a mythic and mystical filter. Among the later volumes that reflect Heaney's honed and deceptively simple style are Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), and Seeing Things (1991). The Spirit Level (1996) concerns the notion of centredness and balance in both the natural and the spiritual senses. His Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 19661996 was published in 1998.Heaney also wrote essays on poetry and poets, including such figures as William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Robert Lowell. Some of these essays appeared in Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 19681978 (1980). A collection of his lectures at Oxford was published as The Redress of Poetry (1995). The Cure at Troy (1991) is Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, and a later volume, The Midnight Verdict (1993), contains translations of selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Cirt an mheadhon oidhche (The Midnight Court),a work by the 18th-century Irish writer Brian Merriman. Heaney's translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (1999) became an unexpected international best seller.