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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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, 1992.
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, 1998.
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Stevenson, Anne. Between the Iceberg and the Ship. University of Michigan Press, 1998.
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She keeps an Ongoing Anthology, a loose-leaf folder with copies of...
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, 1999, pp. 185-96.
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Also in this essay she returns, perhaps more assertively and profoundly, to...
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Stevenson
Essays or chapters, some of them controversial, are devoted to Sylvia Plath , Elizabeth Bishop , Eavan Boland , Nuala Ní Dhomhnaill , Dana Gioia , Seamus Heaney , Louis MacNeice , and R. S. Thomas
Theme or Topic Treated in Text Anne Stevenson
Here ASargues that change is time's one permanent condition, that it continually transforms the present into the past at the very moment it opens the future to further change. Quoting from her own The...

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