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| Seamus Heaney |
- Seamus Heaney was born in April 13, 1939 at Mossbawn and raised in Northern Ireland.
- He is an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer.
- He is one of the most popular poets writing in English today, and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.
- He enrolled at Queen's College in Belfast and took a first in English in 1961.
- In 1963, he became a lecturer in English, at St. Joseph's College.
- Quickly, he began to write and joined a poetry workshop and published his work in university magazines.
- Most of his poetry deals with its culture and landscape.
- Northern Ireland has been the theatre of a civil war, and Heaney's poetry recalls the desolation and loss this conflict has entailed.
- He tries to make language and memory echo and his poems thus underline the importance of literature in the making of history.
- Heaney's poems continually waver between two attitudes: strongly confronting the situation in his homeland, or remaining remote from it.
- In 1978, a friend of his was killed by a bomb left by the IRA in a protestant pub; in order to transcribe his reactions to such an event, he wrote a poem entitled Casualty.
- Main books by Seamus Heaney:
- Death of a Naturalist, 1966
- Door into the Dark, 1969
- Wintering Out, 1972
- Stations, 1975
- North, 1975
- Field Work, 1979
- Sweeney Astray, 1983
- Station Island, 1984
- Haw Lantern, 1987
- The Redress of Poetry, 1995
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