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Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
Seamus Heaney, Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Learn more about Heaney’s life and career, including his various books.
Biographical. Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland, but the father’s real commitment was to cattle-dealing.
Death of a Naturalist (1966) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group.
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (also known as Heaneywulf[1]) is a verse translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf into modern English by the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Heaney. It was published in 1999 by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux and Faber and Faber, and won that year's Whitbread Book of the Year Award.
Seamus Heaney is widely recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century. A native of Northern Ireland, Heaney was raised in County Derry, and later lived for many years in Dublin. He was the author of over 20 volumes of poetry and criticism, and edited several widely used anthologies.
Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) won a Nobel Prize in 1995 for poetry. [1] He lived in Dublin for much of his life.
Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April, 1939 in rural County Derry, in Northern Ireland. He was the eldest of nine children born to Patrick Heaney, a cattle farmer, and Margaret McCann, and grew up on the family farm of Mossbawn.
Wintering Out also contains one of Heaney's most important bog poems. In "Tollund Man," Heaney builds upon the image of the bog that he introduces in Door into the Dark's "Bogland." Heaney was deeply moved by P.V. Glob's study of the mummified Iron Age bodies found in Jutland's peat bogs. Bogs were a familiar feature of the Northern Irish landscape and Heaney found contemporary political ...
Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume.
Field Work (1979) is the fifth poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Background. Field Work was Heaney’s first collection of poetry since his most celebrated collection, North in 1975.
Seamus Heaney. The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995. Born: 13 April 1939, Casteldàwson, Northern Ireland. Died: 30 August 2013, Dublin, Ireland. Residence at the time of the award: Ireland. Prize motivation: “for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past”. Language: English.
Seamus Heaney was a renowned Irish poet and professor who won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
The Seamus Heaney Centre is located at Queen's University Belfast, and named after the late Seamus Heaney, recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney graduated from Queens in 1961 with a First Class Honours in English language and literature.
On this day 10 years ago, one of Ireland and the world's most famous poets, Seamus Heaney, died at the age of 74. But how is he viewed in 2023? We asked six people - from teenage writers to...
The Seamus Heaney HomePlace is an arts and literary centre in Bellaghy, County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. It displays the life and work of Seamus Heaney. Designed by W&M Given Architects, construction began in 2015 by contractors Brendan Loughran & Sons Ltd. It opened in late September 2016.
Seamus Heaney was internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats. Like Yeats, he won the Nobel Prize for literature and, like Yeats, his reputation and influence spread...
Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Collected Poems is a spoken-word recording of the Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney reading his own work. It was released by RTÉ to mark his 70th birthday, [1] [2] which occurred on 13 April 2009. [3]
シェイマス・ヒーニー （Seamus Heaney, 1939年 4月13日 - 2013年 8月30日）は、 北アイルランド 出身の 詩人 ・ 著作家。 経歴. ヒーニーは北アイルランド、 ロンドンデリー県 の農家に9人兄弟の長男として生まれた。 奨学金を得てカトリック系のSt. Columb's Collegeで学び、 クイーンズ大学 でも学んだ。 その後、教師になる訓練を受けて教職に付く。 1966年に初めての詩集『ナチュラリストの死』を出版した。 1966年から クイーンズ大学ベルファスト 講師となった。 1985年から1997年まで ハーバード大学 教授を務めた。 2013年8月30日、アイルランド・ ダブリン の病院で死去、74歳。
The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 was awarded to Seamus Heaney "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past"
Seamus Justin Heaney, född 13 april 1939 på Mossbawn Farm nära Castledawson, County Derry, död 30 augusti 2013 [16] [17] [18] i Dublin, var en irländsk författare, sedan 1989 professor i poetik vid universitetet i Oxford.
Seamus Heaney (n. 13 aprilie 1939 - d. 30 august 2013) a fost un scriitor irlandez, laureat al Premiului Nobel pentru Literatură în anul 1995. S-a născut în Bellaghy, Irlanda de Nord și a locuit în Sandymount, Dublin din 1972 până la moartea sa.