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Seamus Heaney

Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was and is still recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry in Ireland during his lifetime. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world". source

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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

Born 13 April 1939
Died 30 August 2013

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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices Timeless Themes: The British Tradition
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    Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000na_g3o5 Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_q1q2 Cover of edition prenticehalllite0000unse_c2c0 Cover of edition isbn_9780130548085 First published in 2002 — 5 editions
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  • Cover of: The makings of a music: reflections on the poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats : delivered on 9 February, 1978
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    First published in 1978 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: The school bag
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    First published in 1997 — 3 editions
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: Timeless Voices, Timeless Themes: Reader's Companion: Bronze Level
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    Cover of edition litereaturetimel00pear First published in 2003 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Advent Parish Programme
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    First published in 1989 — 2 editions
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall: Literature: The British Tradition
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    First published in 2000 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: La lanterne de l'aubépine
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    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Spelling it out: in honour of Brian Friel on his 80th birthday
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    First published in 2009 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Sweeney's flight: based on the revised text of "Sweeney astray" : with the complete revised text of "Sweeney astray"
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    First published in 1992 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The tree clock
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    First published in 1990 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: 'Mirror up to Nature': The Fourth Seamus Heaney Lectures
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    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: New selected poems 1966-1987
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    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Faber & Faber poetry diary 2016
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    First published in 2015 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Traballo de campo
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    First published in 2005 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Soundings: an annual anthology of new Irish poetry.
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    First published in 1974 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Selected poems, 1965-1975
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    First published in 1980 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Prentice Hall Literature: The British Tradition: Volume II
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    First published in 2007 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: The place of writing
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    First published in 1989 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Rare Seamus Heaney / Field Work Signed 1st Edition 1979
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    First published in 1979 — 1 edition
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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

Born 13 April 1939
Died 30 August 2013

Subjects

English poetry, Irish authors, Poetry, short stories, Drama, Irish poetry, Male authors, Readers (Secondary), Appreciation, British and irish drama, British literature, Criticism and interpretation, Drama (dramatic works by one author), English language, English literature, Faber and Faber, Flower vending, Friends and associates, History, History and criticism, Intellectual life, Linguistics teachers, Literary calendars, Magh Rath, Battle of, 637, Man-woman relationships

Places

Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, Northern Ireland, England, Ireland, London

People

Mangan's sister, Alfred Doolittle, Brian Friel, Colonel Pickering, Eliza Doolittle, Freddy Eynsford Hill, Galatea, Henry Higgins, Mrs. Higgins, Pygmalion, Richard Ellmann (1918-1987), Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Suibhne Geilt, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

Time

20th century, 1912

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Alternative names

  • HEANEY, SEAMUS, 1939-
  • SEAMUS HEANEY
  • SEAMUS). Heaney, Seamus (HEANEY

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January 18, 2024 Edited by bitnapper merge authors
October 12, 2022 Edited by tmanarl bio
September 30, 2020 Edited by MARC Bot add ISNI
February 8, 2019 Edited by Tom Morris merge authors
April 1, 2008 Created by an anonymous user initial import