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
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.
Fox, Margaret, and James McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, p. S12.
Connections
Connections Sort descending | Author name | Excerpt |
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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 | |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | |
Reception | Gillian Clarke | |
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 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 |
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 | Anne Stevenson | Some of the essays making up Irish Issues section of this book have been partly discussed above. The two pieces here on Seamus Heaney
offer a combination of high praise with a touch of pointed... |
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 Production | Anne Stevenson | AS
retains her belief in poetry's need and capacity to reach out to elusive reality, to the ahuman, wordless world. Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 173 Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press. 170-1 |
Textual Production | Frances Horovitz | The year FH
died, poems of hers were reprinted by Gillian Clarke
, Seamus Heaney
, and Ted Hughes
in a commemorative pamphlet. The next year Michael Horovitz
reprinted others in a similar tribute, A... |
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. |
Textual Production | Medbh McGuckian | MMG
published with Cranagh Press
a book of criticism cheekily titled with a misquotation of Yeats
: Horsepower Pass By: A Study of the Car in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney. OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
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... |
Textual Production | Medbh McGuckian | A collection of MMG
's personal and literary papers, Medbh McGuckian Papers, 1969-1994 is housed among manuscript sources for women's history among the Special Collections of the Robert W. Woodruff Library
at Emory University
in... |
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