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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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer (1939–2013)
| Born | 13 April 1939 |
| Died | 30 August 2013 |
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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, authorshipPlaces
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-)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL217115A
- ISNI: 0000000123215547
- VIAF: 109557338
- Wikidata: Q93356
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q93356
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- HEANEY, SEAMUS, 1939-
- SEAMUS HEANEY
- SEAMUS). Heaney, Seamus (HEANEY
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