Wintering Out
New York: Oxford University Press, 1973.
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Hardcover. First American edition from English sheets. Foxing on top page edge, else fine in fine dustwrapper. Inscribed by the Nobel Prize-winning poet to a fellow poet: "Seamus Heaney for Dan Hoffman - 'Our poesy is as a gum which oozes from whence 'tis nourish'd." A pleasing association employing a Shakespearean quote from *Timon of Athens.* One of only 500 copies of the American edition.
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Seamus Heaney
birth name: Seamus Justin Heaney
born: 4/13/1939
nationality: Ireland
Biography
Irish poet whose poems are rooted in Northern Irish rural life. - Merriam-Webster's Encyclopedia of Literaturemore