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About Seamus Heaney
Irish poet, playwright and translator
Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator. He won the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature and is closely associated with modern Irish poetry. He died in 2013. Heaney’s first major published collection was Death of a Naturalist, released in 1966. His work and reputation drew strong praise from other writers and critics, who often described him as a major Irish voice and a poet of unusual range and narrative skill.
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- “The way we are living,timorous or bold,will have been our life.”Seamus Heaney
- “Since I was a schoolboy, I've been used to being recognized on the road by old and young, and being bantered…”Seamus Heaney
- “I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.”Seamus Heaney
- “I believe we are put here to improve civilisation.”Seamus Heaney
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- “You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”David Markson
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Books by Seamus Heaney
Beowulf
2000
The Spirit Level
1996
Death of a naturalist
1966
Opened Ground
1998
District and circle
2006