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.
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Reception | Frances Horovitz | |
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... |
Textual Production | Elaine Feinstein | EF
followed her life of Pushkin
the following year with After Pushkin, an anthology of translations and imitations of his work, and responses to it, by contributors including Ted Hughes
, Seamus Heaney
,... |
Textual Features | Carol Ann Duffy | Critic Deryn Rees-Jones
discerns widely varied influences on CAD
's work: mainstream English poets like Wordsworth
, Robert Browning
, T. S. Eliot
, Auden
, Dylan Thomas
, Larkin
, and Ted Hughes
... |
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 |
Textual Production | Jeni Couzyn | JC
edited for the 1970 Camden Festival a volume of twelve specially commissioned and previously unprinted poems, entitled Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day, published through the Poets' Trust
. This collection (whose cover gave... |
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... |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | |
Textual Production | Catherine Byron | After five years of research and personal pilgrimage, CB
published her autobiographical Out of Step: Pursuing Seamus Heaney
to Purgatory; it is also a critique of Heaney's twelve-poem sequence, Station Island (1984). Byron, Catherine. Out of Step. Loxwood Stoneleigh. |
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 |
Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Catherine Byron | Here CB
focuses on the practical, emotional, and intellectual effects of her parents' bifurcated life: her Catholic mother and agnostic father. Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 185-96. 187 |
Textual Features | Catherine Byron | Once again she returns to her experience on the penitential pilgrimage to St Patrick's Purgatory. She revisits her complaints about Heaney
's depiction of the feminine, but this time she focuses on Francis Hughes |
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 |
Textual Production | Catherine Byron | In 1997 the BBC
and the Arts Council
commissioned CB
to produce Writing on Skins, in which she explores writing on vellum, in collaboration with artist Denis Brown
, for the Write Out Loud... |
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