McGreevy, Ronan. “Tributes paid to <span data-tei-ns-tag="">keeper of language</span> Seamus Heaney”. The Irish Times.
Seamus Heaney
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Standard Name: Heaney, Seamus
Birth Name: Seamus Justin Heaney
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was the pre-eminent Irish poet of his generation, writing in a lucid style which is often dazzling and never obscure. A highly visible international figure in the later twentieth century and beyond, he was famously described by Robert Lowell
as the most important Irish poet since Yeats
. As well as his best-selling poetry volumes he published reviews, criticism, and dramatic writing.
Fox, Margaret, and James McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, p. S12.
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Textual Features | Maureen Duffy | Dates given to poems in the volume range from August 1970 to December 1978. Duffy, Maureen. Memorials of the Quick and the Dead. Hamish Hamilton. 64, 85 |
Reception | Eavan Boland | In 1999 EB
's work was included as required reading, along with the work of Seamus Heaney
and Michael Longley
, for the Leaving Certificate for secondary school students across Ireland. Allen Randolph, Jody. A Backward Look: An Interview with Eavan Boland, December 1999. http://www.carcanet.co.uk/. |
Reception | Frances Horovitz | Martin Booth
printed 550 copies of the collection. Fifty of these were signed by the contributors, who included Seamus Heaney
and Ted Hughes
. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Reception | Frances Horovitz | |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | |
Reception | Jane Gardam | As well as winning prizes or making short-lists for individual titles, JG
has been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
. She received the Heywood Hill lifetime award for literary achievement in... |
Publishing | Catherine Byron | CB
co-edited a poetry anthology with John Lyons
, entitled Northern Poetry, Volume1, in 1989. She reviews children's literature and poetry for the Times Educational Supplement. Authors she has reviewed there include Seamus Heaney |
Publishing | John Millington Synge | A paperback edition from Serif
published in 2005 bears on its back cover a passage in which Seamus Heaney
writes with sympathetic imagination of Synge: Loneliness / Was his passport through the world. Serif. Serif, http://www.serifbooks.co.uk/. Synge, John Millington. Travels in Wicklow, West Kerry and Connemara. Serif. |
Occupation | Elizabeth Bishop | After a six-month appointment at the University of Washington
in Seattle in 1966, EB
went on to teach on and off for years at Harvard
and briefly at New York University
. Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, pp. 175-00. 198, 199, 200 |
Literary responses | Elizabeth Jennings | Seamus Heaney
reviewed this book among a batch of others for the Times Literary Supplement. He welcomed the book's freedom from sensationalism or self-pity, but found the poems over-restrained(perhaps by the stranglehold of strictly... |
Literary responses | Medbh McGuckian | It bore an endorsement from Seamus Heaney
: Her language is like the inner lining of consciousness. The Gallery Press. http://www.gallerypress.com/home.html. |
Literary responses | Eavan Boland | The reception of this volume sealed EB
's reputation; but reviewers continued to define her by comparison with other, better-known poets like Adrienne Rich
and Seamus Heaney
. Boland, Eavan. In a Time of Violence. Norton. jacket |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Byron | As an Irish poet, CB
takes inspiration from traditional tales and myths, and from such Irish writers as W. B. Yeats
and Seamus Heaney
(though she does not consider either of them as role models... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Catherine Byron | Reflections on her own life are intertwined throughout CB
's journey, as she writes on her childhood experience of Catholicism, and her roles as mother, wife, lover, and Irish woman writer. Byron, Catherine. Out of Step. Loxwood Stoneleigh. passim |
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