21. Seamus Heaney -- Britannica Online Encyclopedia Britannica online encyclopedia article on seamus heaney Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9039707

document.writeln(''); document.writeln('Initializing application...'); Username Password Remember me Forgot your password? Browse Shop Log In Search Site: Seamus Heaney Irish poet in full Seamus Justin Heaney Main 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. Brian Friel Death of a Naturalist (1966). In this book and Door into the Dark Wintering Out (1972) and North Field Work Station Island The Haw Lantern (1987), and Seeing Things The Spirit Level (1996) concerns the notion of centredness and balance in both the natural and the spiritual senses. His was published in 1998. In Electric Light (2001) and District and Circle (2006), he returned to the Ireland of his youth. Heaney wrote essays on poetry and on poets such as William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Elizabeth Bishop. Some of these essays have appeared in (1980) and (2002). A collection of his lectures at Oxford was published as The Redress of Poetry Heaney also produced translations, including

22. Featured Author: Seamus Heaney This translation of the medieval Irish work Buile Suibhne, shows that seamus heaney s imagination is continuing to deepen in intensity and range. http://www.nytimes.com/books/00/02/27/specials/heaney.html

Featured Author: Seamus Heaney With News and Reviews From the Archives of The New York Times In This Feature Reviews of Seamus Heaney's Earlier Books Articles About and by Seamus Heaney Audio Seamus Heaney Reads 'Keeping Going,' 'The Strand' and Others (September 18, 1996) Recent Link Langdon Hammer Reviews 'Electric Light' (April 8, 2001) Caroline Forbes/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux Seamus Heaney REVIEWS OF SEAMUS HEANEY'S EARLIER BOOKS: Death of a Naturalist "Heaney writes poetry that is urbane, accomplished, predictable. He also has been struck by violence and by ugliness. . . . But the ugliness is undercut by wit, a wit that is sometimes heavy-handed." North ,' reviewed by Helen Vendler "Heaney, to my mind the best poet now writing in Ireland, seems the only one of his generation not in some way inhibited by the shadow of Yeats." Field Work ". . . a superb book, the most eloquent and far-reaching book he has written, a perennial poetry offered at a time when many of us have despaired of seeing such a thing." Preoccupations ,' reviewed by Robert Pinsky "As a prose writer, Mr. Heaney has a nimble, elegant charm and the ability to rise suddenly, at his best, from conventional ideas to home truths."

23. BBC - BBC Four - Audio Interviews - Seamus Heaney Listen to extracts from a BBC interview with seamus heaney. http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcfour/audiointerviews/profilepages/heaneys1.shtml

@import '/includes/tbenh.css'; @import url(/bbcfour/styles/bullet2.css); Home TV Radio Talk ... A-Z Index 27 January 2008 Accessibility help Text only BBC Homepage BBC Television ... Contact Us Like this page? Send it to a friend! Seamus Heaney b1939 Turning Points 15 November 1988 Radio 4 Seamus Heaney talks to Bel Mooney about his formative years 4 min 21 doing English at University, the influence of Irish writing 2 min 21 Nightwaves 16 September 1998 Radio 4 Seamus Heaney talks about the impact of the troubles on his writing, the bog bodies poems 5 min 26 naming a collection of poems 1 min 46 You will need RealPlayer to access these clips. Visit WebWise for help downloading RealPlayer Seamus Heaney Irish poet, critic and translator Winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, Seamus Heaney has been described as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats". He is probably the most popular poet writing in English today. Read more Further Links Seamus Heaney recites Bogland About the BBC Help Advertise with us

24. Seamus Heaney A selective bibliography of open access articles on seamus heaney, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, http://www.literaryhistory.com/20thC/Heaney.htm

Seamus Heaney (1939 - ) A selective bibliography of open access articles on Seamus Heaney, favoring signed articles by recognized scholars, articles published in reviewed sources, and web sites that adhere to the MLA Guidelines for Authors of Web Sites main page 20th century authors 19th century authors postcolonial authors Literary criticism Andrews, Elmer, ed. Publisher's blurb for The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Columbia Univ. Press, 2000) Bolton, Jonathan. "'Customary rhythms': Seamus Heaney and the rite of poetry." "My chief concern in this essay is with the manner in which Heaney's three to four part station poems have come to serve as the formal equivalent of a liturgical rite." In Papers on Lang. and Lit., Spring 2001 Boly, John. "Following Seamus Heaney's 'Follower': Toward a Performative Criticism." A reading of "The Follower." Twentieth Century Literature, Fall, 2000 Booth, J. The turf cutter and the nine-to-five man: Heaney, Larkin, and "the spiritual intellect's great work." Considers the mutual dislike of each other's work of Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin, in Twentieth Century Literature, Winter, 1997 Corcoran, Neil.

25. Seamus Heaney @Web English Teacher Ideas for teaching the poetry of seamus heaney. seamus heaney Brief biography and a discussion of selected poems. seamus heaney Links to a few poems, http://www.webenglishteacher.com/heaney.html

from LaborLawTalk.com Word: Definition: English Math Teacher Labor Law ... Labor Law Center Employment law requires that employers post mandatory labor law posters . Our complete labor law poster combines the mandated state, federal and OSHA posters on one poster. Book Reports Children's Literature Drama ... Young Adult Literature Seamus Heaney Biography and lesson plans "Funeral Rites" and "North" Seamus Heaney Background, vocabulary, questions for analysis. This document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application for access. Poet: Seamus Heaney Follow the links to 28 online poems. The Poetry of Seamus Heaney Questions for "Blackberry Picking" and "Mid-Term Break." Requires MS-Word or compatible application for access. Seamus Heaney Brief biography and a discussion of selected poems. Seamus Heaney Links to a few poems, bibliography. Seamus Heaney Biography, Heaney's Nobel lecture, poems, and other resources. Seamus Heaney Streaming audio clips of interviews with Heaney. Seamus Heaney Streaming audio of a lecture about "Singing School: # 4" ("Summer 1969"), "Station Island: VII" ("I had come to the edge of the water") "The Strand at Lough Beg," and "Station Island: VIII" ("Black water. White waves. Furrows snowcapped."). The entire discussion is 41 minutes long. "The Tollund Man" Questions to develop analysis. This document requires Adobe Acrobat Reader or compatible application for access.

26. Queen's University Belfast | Seamus Heaney Centre For Poetry seamus heaney centre poetry belfast queen s. The seamus heaney Centre Visits Washington DC As part of the Rediscover Northern Ireland programme in. http://www.qub.ac.uk/schools/SeamusHeaneyCentreforPoetry/

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27. Beowulf (Seamus Heaney) - Book Review A New Translation For those unfamiliar with Beowulf, it is a late first millennium AngloSaxon epic about the hero Beowulf s fights with three monsters http://dannyreviews.com/h/Beowulf.html

Danny Yee's Book Reviews Subjects Titles Authors ... Latest Beowulf: A New Translation Seamus Heaney A book review by Danny Yee For those unfamiliar with Beowulf , it is a late first millennium Anglo-Saxon epic about the hero Beowulf's fights with three monsters: Grendel, Grendel's mother, and, fifty years later at the end of his life, a dragon. Since its rediscovery in the early nineteenth century, it has become a recognised classic, translated scores if not hundreds of times. Not being able to read Old English, all I can say here is that Heaney's translation gave me a better understanding of why people rave about the poem than any of the others I have read. Perhaps the most notable aspect of Heaney's Beowulf "I came to the task of translating Beowulf with a prejudice in favour of forthright delivery. I remembered the voice of the poem as being attractively direct, even though the diction was ornate and the narrative method at times oblique." So he captures something of the Anglo-Saxon alliterative verse form, but not at the expense of "the sound of sense"; he doesn't inflict awkward archaisms on the reader and is never difficult to read. Here is a brief sample, from the wait after Beowulf dives to attack Grendel's mother. "Immediately the counsellors keeping a lookout with Hrothgar, watching the lake water

28. Seamus Heaney: Biography seamus heaney was born April 13, 1939, at Mossbawn, about thirty miles northwest of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. His first book, Death of a Naturalist, http://www.diacenter.org/prg/poetry/87_88/heaneybio.html

Seamus Heaney was born April 13, 1939, at Mossbawn, about thirty miles northwest of Belfast, in Northern Ireland. His first book, Death of a Naturalist , was published in 1966. Heaney is the author of numerous collections of poetry, three volumes of criticism, and The Cure at Troy , a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes . He is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and held the chair of Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994. In 1995, he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. A resident of Dublin since 1976, he spends part each year teaching at Harvard University, where he was elected the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory in 1984. Death of a Naturalist Anahorish From the Frontier of Writing Back ... Dia Art Foundation

29. Heaney Click on the photograph of heaney to hear a talk about seamus heaney and seamus heaney 1939, on a farm in Mossbawn, which is in the North of Ireland. http://www.uvm.edu/~sgutman/Heaney.html

Seamus Heaney Click on the photograph of Heaney to hear a talk about Seamus Heaney and four of his poems: Singing School: # 4, Summer 1969 Station Island: VII, "I had come to the edge of the water" The Strand at Lough Beg Station Island: VIII, "Black water. White waves. Furrows snowcapped." These poems, and of course many others, can be found in: Seamus Heaney: Selected Poems 1966-1987 published by Noonday Press of Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 1990. Seamus Heaney 1939, on a farm in Mossbawn, which is in the North of Ireland. His schholing was all in the North, from grade school through college degrees from Queen's College, Belfast and St. Joseph's College in Belfast. he became a teacher, and began at the same time to write poetry. His books are Death of a Naturalist Door into the Dark Wintering Out Stations North Field Work (1979), S weeney Astray Station Island The Haw Lantern Selected Poems Seeing Things Door into the Dark The Spirit Level (1996), and Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996 . He has published essays in three collections: Preoccupations The Government of the Tongue (1990), and

30. Seamus Heaney The entry for seamus heaney, at Irish Writers Online. http://www.irishwriters-online.com/seamusheaney.html

Irish Writers Online / Author Enter your search terms Submit search form Web Irish Writers Online Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney was born in Derry in 1939. His bibliography is vast, his work encompassing poetry, criticicism, theatre and translation. His major poetry collections are His prose includes Preoccupations : Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (New York,Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 1980); The Government of the Tongue : the 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings (London, Faber and Faber, 1988); and The Redress of Poetry : An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the University of Oxford on 24 October, 1989 (Oxford, Clarendon Press ; New York, Oxford University Press, 1990). He lives in Dublin and is a member of He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. Index a b c ... Seamus Heaney's books at Amazon.com Ann Steiner Hagtornslyktan (1988), published by Fripress (translation of The Haw Lantern); I syner (1996), published by Natur och Kultur (translation of Seeing Things); Select Bibliography Seamus Heaney Nobel Prize for Literature 1995 Index a ... z

31. Literary Allusion And The Poetry Of Seamus Heaney | Style | Find Articles At BNE Literary Allusion and the Poetry of seamus heaney from Style in Arts provided free by Find Articles. http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m2342/is_1_33/ai_58055908

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33. Seamus Heaney Biography - DublinTourist.com A biography of seamus heaney part of the DublinTourist.com Guide to Dublin s Literary Figures. http://www.dublintourist.com/literary_dublin/seamus_heaney.shtml

05:05, Sunday, January 27, 2008 (in Ireland) Search DublinTourist.com: DublinTourist.com IrishTourist.com Accommodation Dublin Hotels ... Holiday Suggestions Local Guides Dublin Galway Cork Kerry ... Self-Catering Destination: Antrim Belfast City Armagh Carlow Cavan Clare Cork City Cork County Derry City Derry County Donegal Down Dublin Fermanagh Galway City Galway County Kerry Kildare Kilkenny City Kilkenny County Laois Leitrim Limerick City Limerick County Longford Louth Mayo Meath Monaghan Offaly Roscommon Shannon Airport Sligo Tipperary Tyrone Waterford City Waterford County Westmeath Wexford Wicklow Dates: Jan Feb Mar Apr May Jun Jul Aug Sep Oct Nov Dec 1 night 2 nights 3 nights 4 nights 5 nights 6 nights 7 nights 8 nights 9 nights 10 nights 11 nights 12 nights 13 nights 14 nights Guests: 1 person 2 people 3 people 4 people 5 people 6 people 7 people 8 people Seamus Heaney Biography Séamus Heaney was born in 1939 on a farm called Mossbawn in Co. Derry. His father was a farmer and cattle trader. He performed well in school and went on to receive a degree in English Language and Literature from Queen's University, Belfast, becoming interested in poets such as Ted Hughes, Patrick Kavanagh and Robert Frost, whose work was rooted in their native backgrounds. Declining an offer to undertake further study at Oxford, Heaney trained instead as a teacher and took up a teaching job in Belfast, while still pursuing his writing. Following the success of his early work, he was appointed lecturer in English at Queen's University, at a time when the war in the North of Ireland was gaining force. A year lecturing at the University of California saw Heaney embracing a more free form of poetry. Not long after this, finding the state of affairs in Northern Ireland increasingly difficult, he resigned his position at Queen's and moved with his wife and their children, first to Wicklow and later to Sandymount in Dublin, where he still lives. His works include: "

34. Poet: Seamus Heaney - All Poems Of Seamus Heaney Poet seamus heaney All poems of seamus heaney .. poetry. http://www.poemhunter.com/seamus-heaney/

Poem Hunter .com Poet: Seamus Heaney - All poems of Seamus Heaney 1/26/2008 11:05:50 PM Home Poets Poems Lyrics ... SEARCH Seamus Heaney Poems Quotations Comments More Info ... Stats Poems Search in the poems of Seamus Heaney Click the title of the poem you'd like read. Page: Act of Union Blackberry-picking Bogland Casualty ... Rite of Spring Page: Quotations "The bogholes might be Atlantic seepage. The wet centre is bottomless." Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 27-28). . . Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. "An astounding crate full of air." Seamus Heaney (b. 1939), Irish poet, critic. Bogland (l. 12). . . Selected Poems 1966-1987 [Seamus Heaney]. (1990) Farrar, Straus and Giroux. Comments about Seamus Heaney Click here to write your comments about Seamus Heaney Amy Qot (10/30/2006 11:28:00 AM) still geting it off my mind, but great one for sure Mark Applegate (10/17/2005 5:16:00 AM) hiya he gr8 woop woop, i think he's brill Web pages / more info about Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney - Biography Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children. His father owned and worked

35. All Ireland's Bard By Seamus Heaney A review by Ireland s contemporary bard of RF Foster s biography of WB Yeats. http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/97nov/yeats.htm

Return to the Table of Contents. N O V E M B E R 1 9 9 7 Tied by birth to unionism, memorialist of the executed Nationalist rebels of 1916, W. B. Yeats mirrored Ireland's divisions in his self-divisions yet saw the island as a single cultural entity sprung from common roots in common myths by Seamus Heaney W.B. YEATS: A LIFE by R. F. Foster Volume 1: The Apprentice Mage Oxford University Press, 640 pages, $35.00. O NE of the most celebrated literary landmarks in Ireland is "the autograph tree," in what was once the walled garden of Lady Augusta Gregory's estate at Coole Park, in County Galway. On the welted bark one can still make out the famous initials: WBY, GBS, AE, and several more, including those of Violet Martin (the pseudonymous "Ross" of the Somerville and Ross writing partnership), who visited Coole in the summer of 1901, and wrote, Yeats looks just what I expected. A cross between a Dominie Sampson and a starved R.C. curate in seedy black clothes with a large black bow at the root of his long naked throat. He is egregiously the poet mutters ends of verse to himself with a wild eye, bows over your hand in dark silence but poet he is and very interesting indeed and somehow sympathetic to talk to I liked him.... Augusta made me add my initials to a tree already decorated by Douglas Hyde, AE and more of the literary crowd. It was most touching. WBY did the carving, I smoked, and high literary conversation raged and the cigarette went out and I couldn't make the matches light, and he held the little dingy lappets of his coat out and I lighted the match in his bosom.

36. Heaney - Poems This guide gives detailed readings of poems by seamus heaney, seamus heaney is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. http://www.universalteacher.org.uk/poetry/heaney.htm

Poems by Seamus Heaney - study guide Navigation Home page Contents Forum Maximize ... Maximize this page Introduction This guide gives detailed readings of poems by Seamus Heaney, with ideas for study. On this page I use red type for emphasis. Brown type is used where italics would appear in print (in this screen font, italic looks like this , and is unkind on most readers). Headings have their own hierarchical logic, too: Main section headings look like this Sub-section headings look like this Back to top About the poet Death of a Naturalist . His other poetry includes Door into the Dark Wintering Out North Selected Poems Station Island The Haw Lantern (1990) and Seeing Things (1991). In 1999 he published a new translation of the Old English heroic poem Beowulf Seamus Heaney is a Foreign Member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford from 1989 to 1994. In 1995 he received the Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney has lived in Dublin since 1976. Since 1981 he has spent part of each year teaching at Harvard University, where he is a Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory. Writing about Heaney in 1968, Jim Hunter, said: You can see whether, and how far, this is true of all the poems in the

37. Harvard University Press: Seamus Heaney By Helen Vendler seamus heaney by Helen Vendler, published by Harvard University Press. http://www.hup.harvard.edu/catalog/VENSEA.html

Home Ordering Search/Browse Contact ... HUP Seamus Heaney Helen Vendler Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets. Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art. A reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years, Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times. With characteristic discernment and eloquence, Helen Vendler traces Heaney's invention as it evolves from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966) through his most recent volume

38. Emory University News Release - Seamus The Woodruff Library of Emory University has acquired a major portion of the archive of the Nobel Prizewinning Irish poet seamus heaney. http://www.news.emory.edu/Releases/seamus1064430623.html

Release date: Sept. 24, 2003 Contact: Deb Hammacher, Associate Director, University Media Relations, at 404-727-0644 or dhammac@emory.edu Emory Acquires Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney Letters The Woodruff Library of Emory University has acquired a major portion of the archive of the Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The collection of personal and literary papers includes thousands of letters spanning Heaney’s entire career as well as printed materials, tape recordings and photographs. Heaney made the announcement Tuesday, Sept. 23 prior to a reading at Emory in honor of the university’s recently retired president, William M. Chace. This acquisition, the latest in a long series of major Irish literary acquisitions by Emory, establishes at the university the largest and most complete archive anywhere for the study of Heaney’s life and work, according to Stephen Enniss, the university’s director of special collections and archives. The acquisition of the Heaney papers is the culmination of a collecting initiative that has spanned more than 15 years and that now includes the archives of many of the finest contemporary poets. “When I was here this summer for commencement, I came to the decision that the conclusion of President Chace’s tenure was the moment of truth, and that I should now lodge a substantial portion of my literary archive in the Woodruff Library, including the correspondence from many of the poets already represented in its special collections,” said Heaney in making the announcement. “So I am pleased to say these letters are now here and that even though President Chace is departing, as long as my papers stay here, they will be a memorial to the work he has done to extend the university’s resources and strengthen its purpose.”

39. Seamus Heaney On BEOWULF seamus heaney, on BEOWULF and His Verse Translation And now this is an inheritance http://www.wwnorton.com/nael/beowulf/introbeowulf.htm

Seamus Heaney on Beowulf and his verse translation And now this is ‘an inheritance’ – Upright, rudimentary, unshiftably planked In the long ago, yet willable forward Again and again and again. 1 B EOWULF: T HE P OEM The poem called Beowulf was composed some time between the middle of the seventh and the end of the tenth century of the first millennium, in the language that is today called Anglo-Saxon or Old English. It is a heroic narrative, more than three thousand lines long, concerning the deeds of a Scandinavian prince, also called Beowulf, and it stands as one of the foundation works of poetry in English. The fact that the English language has changed so much in the last thousand years means, however, that the poem is now generally read in translation and mostly in English courses at schools and universities. This has contributed to the impression that is was written (as Osip Madelstam said of The Divine Comedy ) ‘on official paper’, which is unfortunate, since what we are dealing with is a work of the greatest imaginative vitality, a masterpiece where the structuring of the tale is as elaborate as the beautiful contrivances of its language. Its narrative elements may belong to a previous age but as a work of art it lives in its own continuous present, equal to our knowledge of reality in the present time.

40. Ireland Literature Guide - Seamus Heaney - Nobel Prize Winning Poet The seamus heaney Centre for Poetry is the flagship of the School of English at Queen s University Belfast. It attracts students of poetry and creative http://www.irelandliteratureguide.com/seamus_heaney.html

The Ireland Literature Guide is an Irish online resource for Literature from Ireland Sunday the 27th only search Ireland Literature Guide Home Links Contact Us Publishers ... Festivals and Events Literary Agent the deer of poetry stood in pools of lucent sound ready to scare. Station Island by Seamus Heaney Seamus Heaney Poems Seamus Heaney Links Seamus (Justin) Heaney (1939-) Site http://www.kirjasto.sci.fi/heaney.htm Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. According to Heaney, poetry balances the "scales of reality towards some transcendent equilibrium." From the early collections, Heaney have combined in his work personal memories with images of Irish heritage and the landscape of Northern Ireland. There is also references to English-Irish and Catholic-Protestant conflict. However, Heaney's view is much more visionary and allegorical than bound to contemporary issues. Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry at the School of English Site http://www.qub.ac.uk/heaneycentre/ The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry is the flagship of the School of English at Queen's University Belfast. It attracts students of poetry and creative writing from around the world SEAMUS HEANEY PAGE Site http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Oracle/3211/heaney.html

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