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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: Die Poesie würdigen: (Nobelpreis-Rede 1995) und ein Gespräch mit dem Literatur-Nobelpreisträger

    First published in 1996 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Death of a naturalist

    First published in 1991 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hedge School: sonnets from Glanmore

    First published in 1979 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: BEOWULF *BILINGUAL ED* (Bilingual Edition)

    First published in 2007 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: From the republic of conscience

    First published in 1985 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996

    First published in 2013 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Sweeney praises the trees

    First published in 1981 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Extending the alphabet: on Christopher Marlowe's Hero and Leander : the Pratt lecture, 1993

    First published in 1994 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Stations

    First published in 1975 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Translations of Seamus Heaney

    First published in 2023 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Letters of Seamus Heaney

    First published in 2023 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Electric light/Llum elèctrica

    First published in 2004 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Blue
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    First published in 1998 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Horace and the thunder: after Horace, Odes, I, 34

    First published in 2002 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Poems and a memoir

    First published in 1982 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Hē hellēnikē empeiria

    First published in 2006 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971 - 2001

    First published in 2010 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Government of the Tongue

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  • Cover of: Burial at Thebes

    First published in 2011 — 1 edition
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  • Cover of: Testament of Cresseid and Seven Fables: Translated by Seamus Heaney

    First published in 2009 — 1 edition
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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)

Born 13 April 1939
Died 30 August 2013

Subjects

Poetry (poetic works by one author), Poetry, English poetry, Irish authors, History and criticism, Irish poetry, Dragons, Monsters, Criticism and interpretation, Epic poetry, English (Old), Drama, Heroes, Male authors, Modern Poetry, American poetry, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Adaptations, English literature, Fiction, general, Irish Poets, Fiction, History, Magh Rath, Battle of, 637, Pictorial works, Poetry, authorship

Places

Northern Ireland, Ireland, Scandinavia, Araby, Araby bazaar, North Richmond Street, England, Thebes (Greece), Civilization, Greece, London, Londonderry, Scotland, Troy (Extinct city)

People

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), Seamus Heaney (1939-), Suibhne Geilt, Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Mangan's sister, Seamus Heaney, W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Robert Lowell (1917-1977), William Wordsworth (1770-1850), Alfred Doolittle, Ardyn Halter (1956-), Austin Clarke (1896-1974), Brian Friel, Colonel Pickering, Dante Alighieri (1265-1321), Eliza Doolittle, Freddy Eynsford Hill, Galatea, George Barker (1913-), George Herbert (1593-1633), Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844-1889), Henry Higgins, Horace, Ian Stuart (1929-), John Harold Hewitt (1907-)

Time

20th century, 21st century, To 1172, 19th century, 1912, 1966-1996

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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