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.
Colour photo of Seamus Heaney taken at University College Dublin, 11 February 2009. He looks ahead, with a weather-beaten face, tousled white hair, and side-burns. He wears rimless glasses, and a tweed jacket over a blue shirt and tie.

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Connections Author name Excerpt
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, 1979.
64, 85
Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...
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...
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...
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. 1992–1998, http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999.
The poets concerned gave a public reading from the volume on...
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. 1992–1998, 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
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...
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.
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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