''Seeing Things'' is the eighth poetry collection by

Seamus Heaney Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish Irish poetry, poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is ''Death of a Naturalist'' (1966), his first m ...

, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1991. Heaney draws inspiration from the visions of afterlife in

Virgil Publius Vergilius Maro (; 15 October 70 BC21 September 19 BC), usually called Virgil or Vergil ( ) in English, was an ancient Rome, ancient Roman poet of the Augustan literature (ancient Rome), Augustan period. He composed three of the most fa ...

and

Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri (; most likely baptized Durante di Alighiero degli Alighieri; – September 14, 1321), widely known mononymously as Dante, was an Italian Italian poetry, poet, writer, and philosopher. His ''Divine Comedy'', originally called ...

in order to come to terms with the death of his father, Patrick, in 1986. The title, ''Seeing Things'', refers both to the solid, fluctuating world of objects and to a haunted, hallucinatory realm of the imagination.Hirsch, Edward. ''Home is Where the Heart Breaks''. The New York Times. 17 May 1992
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Seamus Heaney Collected Poems ''Collected Poems'' is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, which occurred on 13 April 2009. The fifteen-CD box set, boxed set * * * * ...

'' album. * The Golden Bough PART I * The Journey Back * Markings * Three Drawings 1. The Point * Three Drawings 2. The Pulse * Three Drawings 3. A Haul * Casting and Gathering * Man and Boy * Seeing Things I * Seeing Things II * Seeing Things III * The Ash Plant * 1.1.87 * An August Night * Field of Vision * The Pitchfork * A Basket of Chestnuts * The Biretta * The Settle Bed * The Schoolbag * Glanmore Revisited 1. Scrabble * Glanmore Revisited 2. The Cot * Glanmore Revisited 3. Scene Shifts * Glanmore Revisited 4. 1973 * Glanmore Revisited 5. Lustral Sonnet * Glanmore Revisited 6. Bedside Reading * Glanmore Revisited 7. The Skylight * A Pillowed Head * A Royal Prospect * A Retrospect * The Rescue * Wheels within Wheels * The Sounds of Rain * Fosterling PART II - SQUARINGS 1: Lightenings * Lightenings i * Lightenings ii * Lightenings iii * Lightenings iv * Lightenings v * Lightenings vi * Lightenings vii * Lightenings viii * Lightenings ix * Lightenings x * Lightenings xi * Lightenings xii 2: Settings * Settings xiii * Settings xiv * Settings xv * Settings xvi * Settings xvii * Settings xviii * Settings xix * Settings xx * Settings xxi * Settings xxii * Settings xxiii * Settings xxiv 3: Crossings * Crossings xxv * Crossings xxvi * Crossings xxvii * Crossings xxviii * Crossings xxix * Crossings xxx * Crossings xxxi * Crossings xxxii * Crossings xxxiii * Crossings xxxiv * Crossings xxxv * Crossings xxxvi 4. Squarings * Squarings xxxvii * Squarings xxxviii * Squarings xxxix * Squarings xl * Squarings xli * Squarings xlii * Squarings xliii * Squarings xliv * Squarings xlv * Squarings xlvi * Squarings xlvii * Squarings xlviii * The Crossing

References

1991 poetry books Irish poetry collections Poetry by Seamus Heaney Faber & Faber books {{poetry-collection-stub