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
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...
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...
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...
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...
Instructor Eavan Boland
While she was at Trinity College she was taught by the poet Seamus Heaney .
Welch, Robert, and Bruce Stewart, editors. The Oxford Companion to Irish Literature. Clarendon.
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