Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present
Seamus Heaney
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Standard Name: Heaney, Seamus
Birth Name: Seamus Justin Heaney
SH
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.
McGreevy, Ronan. “Tributes paid to keeper of language Seamus Heaney”. The Irish Times, 30 Aug. 2013.
Fox, Margaret, journalist, and James, Jr McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, 31 Aug. 2013, p. S12.
At university, she was taught by Seamus Heaney
, and met other poets including Michael Longley
, Paul Muldoon
, and Ciaran Carson
. Her MA thesis on Irish nineteenth-century writers and Gothic fiction dealt...
Instructor
Eavan Boland
While she was at Trinity College she was taught by the poet Seamus Heaney
.
Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon, 1996.
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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...
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
Elizabeth Bishop
The strength of EB
's influence on British and Irish poetry was variously recognised during the 1980s by Andrew Motion
, Seamus Heaney
, James Fenton
, and Eavan Boland
, and during the 1990s...
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, 1992.
passim
She deals trenchantly...
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.
qtd. in
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, 1994.
Astley, Neil. “Elizabeth Bishop: A Bibliography; Elizabeth Bishop: Chronology”. Elizabeth Bishop: Poet of the Periphery, edited by Linda Anderson and Jo Shapcott, Bloodaxe Books, 2002, pp. 175-00.
198, 199, 200
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.
The poets concerned gave a public reading from the volume on...
Reception
Frances Horovitz
FH
's poetry, as well as her poetry-reading for the BBC
, touched many, and thousands mourned her early death. In 1984 Canto
produced a cassette tape of her reading her poetry and giving an...
Timeline
1998-9: In a league table of sales in verse for these...
Writing climate item
1998-9
In a league table of sales in verse for these years, published by the Guardian in October 2000, Ted Hughes
was the highest with 172,174, Seamus Heaney
second with 34,690, and Carol Ann Duffy
third...
Texts
Beowulf. Translator Heaney, Seamus, Faber, 1999.
Heaney, Seamus. Death of a Naturalist. Faber, 1966.
Heaney, Seamus. District and Circle. Faber, 2006.
Heaney, Seamus. Door into the Dark. Faber, 1969.
Heaney, Seamus. Field Work. Faber, 1979.
Heaney, Seamus. Finders Keepers. Faber, 2002.
Heaney, Seamus. Human Chain. Faber, 2010.
Heaney, Seamus. New Selected Poems 1966-1987. Faber, 1990.