Buy this book on-line SEAMUS HEANEY : Diary of One who Vanished. A song cycle by Leo Janácek in a new version by Seamus HeaneyFaber, London, 1999
First Edition (first printing) of this Heaney translation, commissioned by English National Opera for a series of international performances, opening in Dublin in October 1999. Sixteen unpaginated leaves stapled card wrappers. A virtually fine copy in dust wrapper, marred only by a single miniscule nick to head of front panel. A two-page introduction by Heaney precedes twenty-two poems. Czech composer Janácek originally come across these anonymous verses of sexual infatuation, a dark-eyed gypsy and a haunted farmer's boy ["the standard fare of folk song"] in his local paper in 1916, setting them to music between August 1917 and June 1919. The Diary was premiered at the Reduta Theatre in Brno on 18 April 1921 under the title 'The Diary of One Who Disappeared and Never Heard of Again'. Brandes & Durkan A73. [A light item, UK postage will be reduced].. Book. Book Condition: Near Fine. Binding: Soft cover. Jacket: Near Fine Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of SEAMUS HEANEY : Diary of One who Vanished. A song cycle by Leo Janácek in a new version by Seamus Heaney. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including incunabula, out of print books, rare books, libri rari and livres rares. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |