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...
Textual Production
Seamus Heaney
When SH
, then a schoolteacher, began writing poetry in the 1960s, one of his models was the Anglo-Saxon poetry studied on his degree course. When contemplating a translation from that language years later he...