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 <span data-tei-ns-tag="">keeper of language</span> Seamus Heaney”. The Irish Times.
Fox, Margaret, and James McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, p. S12.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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...
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.
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...
Reception Medbh McGuckian
During the same festival, MMG said she found Yeats intimidating because of the perfection of his poems, but that his influence has made Seamus Heaney 's poetry and hers possible: I feel that there is...
Reception Gillian Clarke
The poems in this volume include contributions by Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney , and R. S. Thomas .
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.
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
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.
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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
This was the third of her...
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.
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...

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