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 | Author name Sort descending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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 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
,... |
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 | 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... |
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 | |
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... |
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. |
Instructor | Medbh McGuckian | 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... |
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... |
Reception | Medbh McGuckian | |
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. |
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... |
Textual Production | Ruth Padel | This poem was reprinted in Angel. Other poets to appear in this series, each on a different coloured sheet of paper, were Carol Ann Duffy
, Judi Benson
, Anne Born
, Carole Coates |
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