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
Seamus Heaney
×CloseIrish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
Born | 13 April 1939 |
Died | 30 August 2013 |
21 works Add another?
Sorted by: Most Editions | First Published | Most Recent | Top Rated | Reading Log | Random
Showing ebooks only. Would you like to see everything by this author?
Seamus Heaney
×CloseIrish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer
Born | 13 April 1939 |
Died | 30 August 2013 |
Subjects
English poetry, Irish authors, Poetry, short stories, Drama, Irish poetry, Male authors, Poetry (poetic works by one author), 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, 637People
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)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL217115A
- ISNI: 0000000123215547
- VIAF: 109557338
- Wikidata: Q93356
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q93356
Links (outside Open Library)
No links yet. Add one?
Alternative names
- HEANEY, SEAMUS, 1939-
- SEAMUS HEANEY
- SEAMUS). Heaney, Seamus (HEANEY
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 |