Door Into The Dark

First edition, second impression of Door Into The Dark by Seamus Heaney. First impression. Medium format hardback in near fine condition. Flat signed by author to front endpage. Soft crease to the pre-text pages (near the spine, visible in the copyright page pic), no other internal markings. Pages clean, binding firm. The jacket has some minor scuffing and a 2cm closed tear to bottom front. In removable protective sleeve. Please see photographs for reference.

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Seamus Heaney's Door into the Dark continues a furrow so startlingly opened in his first collection, Death of a Naturalist (1966). With the sensuousness and physicality of language that would become the hallmark of his early writing, these poems graphically depict the author's rural upbringing, from the local forge to the banks of Lough Neagh, concluding in the preserving waters of the bogland and a look ahead to his next book, Wintering Out (1972).