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 | 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... |
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 | |
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 | 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 |
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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
found the literary activity while she was at university very formative to her work, and notes that poets such as Seamus Heaney
(her teacher), Michael Longley
, Paul Muldoon
, and Ciaran Carson
all... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Gillian Clarke | These complex poems share a deceptively simple surface. The title poem, about a day spent tending a sick child, is said by M. Wynn Thomas
to mark the genesis of GC
's poetry, as an... |
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