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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.
English: Title: Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, [New York]. 1995 Nobel Prize Winner Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [November 1982] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-01593 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
The book is a collection of Seamus Heaney's poems published between 1966 and 1996. It includes poems from Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), Wintering Out (1972), Stations (1975), North (1975), Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996).
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English: Title: Seamus Heaney, Irish poet, [New York]. 1995 Nobel Prize Winner Creator(s): Gotfryd, Bernard, photographer Date Created/Published: [November 1982] Medium: 1 photograph : color transparency ; 35mm (slide format) Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-gtfy-01593 (digital file from original) Rights Advisory: No known restrictions on publication.
The 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to the Irish poet Seamus Heaney (1939–2013) "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." [1] He is the fourth Irish Nobel laureate after the playwright Samuel Beckett in 1969. [2] [3]
He then attended Queen's University, Belfast, where he was taught by Seamus Heaney. He resides in Gweedore, County Donegal. He is a descendant of John McSorley, who opened McSorley's Old Ale House, the oldest operating pub in New York City.
But what makes Seamus Heaney's writing so fortifying is, partly, his temperament: his human chain is tolerant, durable, compassionate and every link is reinforced by literature." [3] Luke Smith of The Oxonian Review wrote, "Heaney is now 71, and Human Chain is his first book since the stroke. It should not surprise us, then, that the poems here ...