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 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 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 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 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.
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Many handle the world's headline griefs; many record the tiny deaths of animals. The opening poem, Memorials of the...
Textual Production Jeni Couzyn
JC edited for the 1970 Camden Festival a volume of twelve specially commissioned and previously unprinted poems, entitled Twelve to Twelve: Poetry D-Day, published through the Poets' Trust . This collection (whose cover gave...
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...
Reception Gillian Clarke
The poems in this volume include contributions by Ted Hughes , Seamus Heaney , and R. S. Thomas .
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.
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.
passim
She deals trenchantly...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Catherine Byron
Here CB focuses on the practical, emotional, and intellectual effects of her parents' bifurcated life: her Catholic mother and agnostic father.
Byron, Catherine. “The Most Difficult Door”. Women’s Lives into Print, edited by Pauline Polkey, Macmillan, pp. 185-96.
187
Also in this essay she returns, perhaps more assertively and profoundly, to...
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
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
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...

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