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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 .
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).
North (1975) is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.It was the first of his works that directly dealt with the Troubles in Northern Ireland, and it looks frequently to the past for images and symbols relevant to the violence and political unrest of that time.
Herbert Lee Stoddard (February 24, 1889 – November 15, 1970) [1] was an American naturalist, conservationist, forester, wildlife biologist, ecologist, ornithologist, taxidermist, and author. [2] In the 20th century he earned a reputation for being one of the American Southeast's most prominent conservationists [ 3 ] and a pioneering forest ...
Photograph of a portrait by Rembrandt Peale. John Davidson Godman (20 December 1794 – 17 April 1830) was an American physician and naturalist. He taught anatomy at a number of early American medical institutions including at Philadelphia (precursors of the Philadelphia School of Anatomy), Ohio and Cincinnati while also writing on a range of topics.
William Henry Hudson (4 August 1841 – 18 August 1922), known in Argentina as Guillermo Enrique Hudson, was an Anglo-Argentine author, naturalist and ornithologist.Born in the Argentine pampas where he roamed free in his youth, he observed bird life and collected specimens for the Smithsonian Institution.
May Petrea Theilgaard Watts (1 May 1893 – 20 August 1975) was an American naturalist, writer, poet, illustrator, and educator. She was a naturalist at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois, and author of Reading the Landscape of America. She is credited with proposing in 1963 what ultimately developed as a national rails-to-trails program.
In 1928 Beebe and Tee-Van published an illustrated and annotated list of 270 such species, which was expanded in 1935 bringing the total to 324. [149] Beebe provided an account of this expedition in his 1928 book Beneath Tropic Seas , which was the first of his books to receive less than enthusiastic reviews, due to its episodic structure.