Nobel laureate Heaney's Whitbread Prize-winning collection of 1996
is full of delights. Comparisons to the other 20th-century Irish
Nobel prize-winner Yeats must surely return. There are poems in
this collection which are so assured, so simple and yet so resonant
that they continually remind the reader of Yeats on top form. And
indeed Heaney seems to encourage this comparison with references to
Troy and swans. Which is not to say that Heaney is aping Yeats. He
brings his unique lightness of touch to tiny subjects, such as a
whole poem about mint, as well as to the grander ones. (Kirkus UK)
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep
discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of
subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem,
is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and
political. Private memories, classical scenes, humble domestic
objects - a whitewash brush, a sofa, a swing - are endowed with
talismanic significance, while friends and relatives are invoked
for their promise and steadfastness. Throughout the collection,
Heaney addresses his concerns, which inevitably include the
political situation in his native Northern Ireland, in a poetry
that never ceases to be fluid, alert and completely truthful.
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