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Typefaces (Type evidence)-Poliphilus Roman (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence)-Blado Italic (Monotype)
Typefaces (Type evidence)-Hadriano Stone Cut.
115 pages, 1 unnumbered page, 16 unnumbered leaves of plates : illustrations ; 31 cm.
From Death of a naturalist, 1966. Personal Helicon -- From Door into the dark, 1960. Undine -- From North, 1975. Antaeus (1966) ; Hercules and Antaeus ; Freedman ; from Singing school exposure -- From Field work, 1979. Oysters ; An afterwards -- From Station Island, 1984. The underground ; From Shelf-life. Stone from Delphi ; Station Island VI -- From The Haw lantern, 1987. Alphabets ; Terminus ; The Haw lantern ; A daylight art ; The stone verdict ; Grotus and Coventina ; Wolfe tone -- From The cure at Troy : a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, 1990. Chorus: 'You've heard the famous tale' -- From seeing things, 1991. The golden bough (from Virgil, Aeneid, Book VI) ; From Glanmore revisited. III. Scene shifts, V. Lustral Sonnet, VI. Bedside reading -- From Squarings. IV. Beneath the ocean iteslf, the crowd ; V. Three marble holes thumbed in the concrete road ; XXVII. Everything flows. Even a solid man ; XXXVIII. We climbed the Capitol by moonlight, felt ; The crossing (from Dante, Inferno, Canto III, lines 82-129 -- From The midnight verdict, 1993. Orpheus and Euridice (after Ovid, Metamorphoses, X) ; The death of Orpheus (after Ovid, Metamorphoses, XI) -- From The spirit level, 1996. Damson ; Mycenae lookout -- From Electric light, 2001. From out of the bag. II. Poeta doctus Peter Levi says, III. Bits of grass I pulled I posted off ; Bann Valley eclogue ; Virgil, Eclogue IX ; Glamore eclogue ; from Sonnets from Hellas. I. Into Arcadia. IV. The Augean stables. VI. Desfina ; Arion -- From The burial at Thebes : a version of Aeschulus' Antigone, 2004. Chorus: "Among the manu wonders of the world" ; Chorus: "Love that can't be withstood -- From District and circle, 2006. Anything can happen (after Horace, Odes, I, 34) -- From Human chain, 2010. The riverbank field ; Route 110 -- From Virgil's Aeneid Book VI, 2012. The Elysian fields, "With this ritual/Finally performed" ; Charon and the Underworld, "A road starts here that leads to Acheron river" -- From Metamorphosis : poems inspired by Titian, 2012. Actaeon.
Seamus Heaney ; selected and with an introduction by Helen Vendler ; with watercolor drawings by Wendy Artin.
"This book was designed and produced, in an edition of 300 numbered copies for sale and 26 lettered copies for complimentary distribution, by Andrew Hoyem, with the assistance of Blake Riley, Lewis Mitchell, Brian Ferrett, David Johnston, Christopher Godek, Mark Sarigianis, Sarah Songer, Rochelle Youk, Lyssa Black, and Diana Ketcham. The types are Poliphilus roman and Blado italic, in Monotype, with the larger size of the italic handset, and Hadriano Stone Cut, handset, printed by letterpress on a Heidelberg cylinder press. The illustrations were printed on an ink-jet. The paper is German mould-made Schiller. This is the ninety-sixth publication of the Arion Press"--Colophon.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is number222 and is signed by Seamus Heaney and Wendy Artin.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy is housed with Seamus Heaney Stone from Delphi in a slipcase.