Preoccupations. Selected Prose 1968-1978. London: Faber, 1980. First Edition. Pp, 224. Neat ownership name to front endpaper, otherwise a fine bright copy in dust jacket.

The first collection of prose published by the Seamus Heaney, with essays on Yeats, Wordsworth, Hopkins, Patrick Kavanagh and others, providing fresh insight into their poetry.