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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

Born 13 April 1939
Died 30 August 2013

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Irish poet, playwright, translator, lecturer

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, Modern Poetry, American poetry, Drama (dramatic works by one author), Male authors, Adaptations, English literature, Fiction, general, Fiction, History, Irish Poets, 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
Suibhne Geilt, Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593), Mangan's sister, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney (1939-), W. B. Yeats (1865-1939), Robert Lowell (1917-1977), Seamus Heaney (1939-2013), 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, John Harold Hewitt (1907-), Michael J. Durkan
Time
20th century, To 1172, 19th century, 21st 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
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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