41. Heaney, Seamus Justin - Hutchinson Encyclopedia Article About Heaney, Seamus Jus Hutchinson encyclopedia article about heaney, seamus Justin. heaney, seamus Justin. Information about heaney, seamus Justin in the Hutchinson encyclopedia. http://encyclopedia.farlex.com/Heaney, Seamus Justin

Domain='thefreedictionary.com' word='Heaney, Seamus Justin' Printer Friendly 761,867,068 visitors served. TheFreeDictionary Google Word / Article Starts with Ends with Text subscription: Dictionary/ thesaurus Medical dictionary Legal dictionary Financial dictionary Acronyms Idioms Encyclopedia Wikipedia encyclopedia Hutchinson encyclopedia Heaney, Seamus Justin 0.21 sec. write_ads(AdsNum, 0) His collections of poetry include Death of a Naturalist Field Work The Haw Lantern The Spirit Level (1998). Critical works include The Redress of Poetry (1995). His (1999), a modern version of the Anglo-Saxon epic, won the Whitbread Book of the Year award. Born near Castledawsen, County Londonderry, Heaney was educated at Queen's University, Belfast. His Death of a Naturalist was the first collection from a group of Ulster poets with whom he was associated, including James Simmons, Derek Mahon, and Michael Longley. Heaney's early work, in this collection and in Door into the Dark (1969), was marked by a densely descriptive evocation of rural life. The poems of Wintering Out (1972) and North Field Work Station Island The Haw Lantern (1987), and

42. Seamus Heaney - Biography seamus heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm http://www.geocities.com/nobel123za/Seamus-Heaney.htm

Seamus Heaney The Nobel Prize in Literature 1995 Biography Seamus Heaney Heaney grew up as a country boy and attended the local primary school. As a very young child, he watched American soldiers on manoeuvres in the local fields, in preparation for the Normandy invasion of 1944. They were stationed at an aerodrome which had been built a mile or so from his home and once again Heaney has taken this image of himself as a consciousness poised between "history and ignorance" as representative of the nature of his poetic life and development. Even though his family left the farm where he was reared (it was called Mossbawn) in 1953, and even though his life since then has been a series of moves farther and farther away from his birthplace, the departures have been more geographical than psychological: rural County Derry is the "country of the mind" where much of Heaney's poetry is still grounded. The Haw Lantern

43. Seamus Heaney Quotes A collection of quotes attributed to Irish poet seamus heaney. http://www.notable-quotes.com/h/heaney_seamus.html

Browse quotes by subject Browse quotes by author SEAMUS HEANEY QUOTES All I know is a door into the dark. SEAMUS HEANEY, The Forge I can't think of a case where poems changed the world, but what they do is they change people's understanding of what's going on in the world. SEAMUS HEANEY, This Week magazine, Apr. 15, 2004 Smile As you find a rhythm Working you, slow mile by mile, Into your proper haunt. SEAMUS HEANEY, Casualty SEAMUS HEANEY, Paris Review, Fall 1997 It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir. SEAMUS HEANEY, Nobel Lecture, Dec. 7, 1995 God is a foreman with certain definite views Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure. SEAMUS HEANEY, Docker Those were the days booting a leather football truer and farther than you ever expected! SEAMUS HEANEY, Three Drawings Poetry cannot afford to lose its fundamentally self-delighting inventiveness, its joy in being a process of language as well as a representation of things in the world. SEAMUS HEANEY, The Redress of Poetry Honeymooning, moonlighting, late for the Proms

44. Notes From Underground DISTRICT AND CIRCLE By seamus heaney Farrar Straus Giroux. 78 pp. $20. Notes From Underground Nobel laureate seamus heaney returns to memory and work. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/13/AR2006041301703.

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45. The Poetry Book Society, The Book Club For Poetry Lovers: Bestsellers Mrs Valerie Eliot with seamus heaney s daughter, Catherine heaney, On hearing that he had won the T S Eliot Prize 2006, seamus heaney said http://www.poetrybooks.co.uk/pbs/T_S_E_2006_winner.asp

Contact the PBS Getting published About the PBS Information for publishers ... Links T S ELIOT PRIZE 2006 SUPPORTED BY Seamus Heaney wins the T S Eliot Prize 2006 The Poetry Book Society is pleased to announce that the winner of the T S Eliot Prize for the best single-author collection of poetry published in 2006 is: Seamus Heaney, for his collection District and Circle Mrs Valerie Eliot with Seamus Heaney's daughter, Catherine Heaney, and David Lammy, the Minister for Culture at the T S Eliot Prize 2006 Award Ceremony After several hours of deliberation and much lively debate, the judges of the 2006 prize, Sophie Hannah and Gwyneth Lewis District and Circle On hearing that he had won the T S Eliot Prize 2006, Seamus Heaney said: District and Circle District and Circle Sample poem from District and Circle: Anahorish 1944 A Tuesday morning, sunlight and gutter-blood Outside the slaughterhouse. From the main road They would have heard the squealing, Then heard it stop and had a view of us In our gloves and aprons coming down the hill. Two lines of them, guns on their shoulders, marching.

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47. BBC NEWS | Entertainment | Music | Seamus Heaney Praises Eminem American rap star Eminem is praised by leading poet seamus heaney for his verbal energy . http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3033614.stm

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48. Stephen Burt Reviews "District And Circle" By Seamus Heaney: Tower Poetry It’s tempting to say that a poet of seamus heaney’s powers, with his reputation, at this stage of his career, can do anything he wants to do. http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry-matters/april2006/heaney.html

Home Contact Us April 2006 Poetry Matters 2006 Queen's Medal for Poetry Tower Poetry at the Oxford Literary Festival, March 2006 Reviews Stephen Burt reviews District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Stephen Burt reviews District and Circle by Seamus Heaney Other memories carry more serious burdens. In “Anahorish 1944,” the speaker (quote marks enclose the whole poem) remembers American soldiers stationed in Ireland but bound for Normandy, “Two lines of them, guns on their shoulders, marching." The tableau reverses, with elegant irony, the binary of innocence and experience, or innocence and guilt, which we might expect: “We were killing pigs when the Americans arrived,” while the soldiers were “standing there like youngsters/ As they tossed us gum and tubes of coloured sweets.” If the Heaney of North implied that guilt lay everywhere, the Heaney of District and Circle says that innocence and helplessness are everywhere too. The current "war on terror" informs a smart translation from Horace and a sketch about “a donkey on the TV news last night—/ Loosed from a cart that had loosed five mortar shells/ In the bazaar district, wandering out of sight,” away from the conflict, like Balaam's ass in reverse. When District and Circle They do not do so unaided. Equally Heaneyesque, equally individual, are the unparalleled melodic gifts, the unusually broad vocabulary and singing pentameters which can make musical any subject at all. Here is the poet simply boarding a Tube train:

49. The Poetry Center At Smith College And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. From THE SPIRIT LEVEL (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996). Poems by seamus heaney http://www.smith.edu/poetrycenter/poets/postscript.html

Postscript And some time make the time to drive out west Into County Clare, along the Flaggy Shore, In September or October, when the wind And the light are working off each other So that the ocean on one side is wild With foam and glitter, and inland among stones The surface of a slate-grey lake is lit By the earthed lightning of a flock of swans, Their feathers roughed and ruffling, white on white, Their fully grown headstrong-looking heads Tucked or cresting or busy underwater. Unless to think you'll park and capture it More thoroughly. You are neither here nor there, A hurry through which known and strange things pass As big soft buffetings come at the car sideways And catch the heart off guard and blow it open. From THE SPIRIT LEVEL (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1996) Poems by Seamus Heaney Postscript The Clothes Shrine

50. Seamus Heaney, Digging With The Pen  (November-December 2006) One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself responsible http://harvardmagazine.com/2006/11/seamus-heaney-digging-wi.html

Harvard Magazine November-December 2006 Seamus Heaney, Digging with the Pen Forum: The Ethanol Illusion Ouch! ... Audience Response Sign up to receive Harvard Magazine e-mail updates! Cover Article Seamus Heaney, Digging with the Pen On rhymes and responsibilities by Adam Kirsch One of the most revealing questions you can ask about any poet has to do with his sense of responsibility. To whom or what does he hold himself responsible in his writing? The poet who replies “Nothing”—who believes that the concept of responsibility is foreign to the totally free realm of art—is likely to be a bad poet. If there is nothing—no reader real or imaginary, no idea, value, or principle—with the right to hold the writer to account, then there is no way for her to know when she is writing better or worse, when she is getting closer to her ideal or straying from it. That is why a genuine artist almost always wants to feel answerable to something. Not necessarily a person or a group, because any concrete audience is all too likely to constrict the imagination, to encourage flattery or evasion. But there is liberation in feeling responsible to an ideal reader—the best poets of the past, perhaps, or the unbiased readers of the future; or to an ethical principle—speaking truthfully, bearing witness, offering sympathy; or to an aesthetic ideal—the radiance of beauty, the genius of the language. Not until you know what a poet feels responsible toward can you know how he wants and deserves to be read. See accompanying interview:

51. Mathematical Proceedings ECLOGUES IN EXTREMIS ON THE STAYING POWER OF PASTORAL. By seamus heaney. Read 6 June 2002. Published 4 July 2003. http://www.ria.ie/publications/journals/ProcCI/2003/PC03/103C01a.html

Home Shop Search Sitemap ... Links Publications about members events policy ... TV/Radio document.write(mw_crumbs("","","Home")) Navigation Publications Home Section C, Proceedings of the RIA Journal Home Instructions to Authors Subscribe Editors Login ... Buy online Section C, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy Vol. 103C, 1-12 (2003) ECLOGUES IN EXTREMIS : ON THE STAYING POWER OF PASTORAL By SEAMUS HEANEY [Read 6 June 2002. Published 4 July 2003.] ABSTRACT The author explores the literary tradition and critical reception of pastoral poetry, referring to Virgil's eclogues as well as contemporary examples by Michael Longley, Louis MacNeice, Czeslaw Milosz and Miklos Radnoti. He argues that the form of the eclogue, though a self-consciously literary one, has stayed alive through its ability to meet the challenges of new and sometimes tragic historical circumstances. In addition, the literariness of the pastoral mode allows the poet to shed new or clearer light on truth and reality. location map Royal Irish Academy, 19 Dawson Street, Dublin 2. Tel: +353-1-6762570, Fax: +353-1-6762346

52. CNN - Seamus Heaney Poems - Oct. 5, 1995 STOCKHOLM, Sweden The following poems are by Irish poet seamus heaney. The Swedish Academy cited these when awarding heaney the 1995 Nobel Prize for http://www.cnn.com/WORLD/Newsbriefs/9510/10-05/poems.html

Text of poems by 1995 Nobel Literature Prize winner Seamus Heaney October 5, 1995 Web posted at: 2:10 p.m. EDT (1810 GMT) STOCKHOLM, Sweden The following poems are by Irish poet Seamus Heaney. The Swedish Academy cited these when awarding Heaney the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature. "Lightenings viii," from his 1991 collection, "Seeing Things" The annals say: when the monks of Clonmacnoise Were all at prayers inside the oratory A ship appeared above them in the air. The anchor dragged along behind so deep It hooked itself into the altar rails And then, as the big hull rocked to a standstill, A crewman shinned and grappled down a rope And struggled to release it. But in vain. `This man can't bear our life here and will drown,' The abbot said, `Unless we help him.' So They did, the freed ship sailed and the man climbed back Out of the marvelous as he had known it. "The Wishing Tree," from his 1987 collection, "The Haw Lantern" I thought of her as the wishing tree that died And saw it lifted, root and branch, to heaven

53. Skoool.ie :: Exam Centre seamus heaney was born in 1939 on a farm called Mossbawn in Co. Derry. . Detailed notes on three of seamus heaney s poems are available on the following http://www.skoool.ie/skoool/examcentre_sc.asp?id=385

54. Seamus Heaney (1939-) seamus heaney (1939). ‘Digging’. Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun. Under my window a clean rasping sound http://homepage.smc.edu/driscoll_lawrence/Seamus Heaney poems.htm

Seamus Heaney ( ‘Digging’ Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; as snug as a gun. Under my window a clean rasping sound When the spade sinks into gravelly ground My father, digging. I look down Till his straining rump among the flowerbeds Bends low, comes up twenty years away Stooping in rhythm through potato drills Where he was digging. The coarse boot nestled on the lug, the shaft Against the inside knee was levered firmly. He rooted out tall tops, buried the bright edge deep To scatter new potatoes that we picked Loving their cool hardness in our hands. By God, the old man could handle a spade Just like his old man. My grandfather could cut more turf in a day Than any other man on Toner's bog. Once I carried him milk in a bottle Corked sloppily with paper. He straightened up To drink it, then fell to right away Nicking and slicing neatly, heaving sods Over his shoulder, going down and down For the good turf. Digging. The cold smell of potato mold, the squelch and slap Of soggy peat, the curt cuts of an edge

55. Seamus Heaney On LibraryThing | Catalog Your Books Online seamus heaney. 1999 photo courtesy of Princeton University. 1 picture add a picture There are 57 conversations about seamus heaney s books. http://www.librarything.com/author/heaneyseamus

Language: English [ others Albanian Basque Bulgarian ... Welsh Over twenty-two million books on members' bookshelves. Home Book Suggestions Zeitgeist Groups ... Blog 1999 photo courtesy of Princeton University 1 picture add a picture Author: Seamus Heaney Also known as: Seamus Haney trans. Seamus Heaney ed. S Heaney Seamus ed. Heaney ... tr. Seamus Heaney Members Reviews Rating Favorited Conversations Books by Seamus Heaney combine/separate works Opened ground : selected poems, 1966-1996 401 copies, 3 reviews New selected poems, 1966-1987 344 copies, 3 reviews The spirit level 165 copies, 2 reviews Death of a naturalist 142 copies, 1 review District and circle 140 copies, review Electric light 126 copies, 2 reviews Selected poems, 1965-1975 121 copies, review Seeing things 114 copies, review Station Island 109 copies, review North 104 copies, 1 review Field work 99 copies, 1 review The redress of poetry 96 copies, review The haw lantern 77 copies, review Finders keepers : selected prose, 1971-2001 76 copies, review Sweeney astray : a version from the Irish 75 copies, 1 review see all 56 books Member ratings Average: 0.5 stars

56. Nobel Times Four Henry Pearson began donating his seamus heaney materials to the University In addition to materials exclusively by seamus heaney, the collection today http://www.lib.unc.edu/rbc/n4/heaney.html

@import "n4.css"; Exhibition Index Introduction Reflections on Twentieth Century Irish Literature The Irish Collections in Wilson Library The William Butler Yeats Collection The George Bernard Shaw Collection The Samuel Beckett Collection The Seamus Heaney Collection ... Exhibition Checklist The Irish Collections in Wilson Library Seamus Heaney with Nobel Prize diploma (Stockholm, 1995). The Seamus Heaney Collection Henry Pearson began donating his Seamus Heaney materials to the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 1980. From only a small number of titles given in that year, the collection has grown steadily over the past two and a half decades to contain more than 1,300 cataloged books, pamphlets, broadsides, periodicals, sound recordings, and manuscripts. In addition, there are approximately 125 relatively ephemeral items that are as yet uncataloged. These include photographs, newspaper clippings, program announcements, publishers' catalogs, exhibition catalogs, and printouts from the World Wide Web. Approximately 250 of the books, pamphlets, broadsides, and recordings are by Heaney himself. While many of the materials are first editions, Mr. Pearson has made a determined effort to create a true research collection, documenting as fully as possible the evolution of a text and its publication history. Thus, he has sought to include a wide range of bibliographical variants, including prepublication printed states (page proofs, bluelines, bound proof copies, etc.); all issues of the first edition (limited and trade, hardcover and paperback); Irish, English, and American printings; and significant later editions, printings, or translations. Many of these items have been signed by the author; some bear personal, often quite substantial, inscriptions to Mr. Pearson.

57. Beowulf A New Verse Translation By Seamus Heaney www.beowulf2000.com/ seamus heaneyIn his new verse translation of Beowulf, Irish Poet seamus heaney has created a modern m asterwork from one of Europe s most ancient texts. http://www.beowulf2000.com/

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58. [minstrels] Blackberry-picking -- Seamus Heaney I always felt like crying. It wasn t fair That all the lovely canfuls smelt of rot. Each year I hoped they d keep, knew they would not. seamus heaney http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/934.html

[934] Blackberry-picking Title : Blackberry-picking Poet : Seamus Heaney Date : 7 Nov 2001 Late August, given h... Length : Text-only version Prev Index Next Your comments on this poem to attach to the end [ microfaq Blackberry-picking Seamus Heaney In a lecture given to students at Oxford University, Seamus Heaney compared the writing of poetry to the creation of a labyrinth, one that mirrors the gruesome contortions our own world assumes at times. The difference is, however, that the poet's labyrinth, the poem, has the power to restore us, to reset the balance. Heaney displays those restorative powers wonderfully in this poem. The arrival of joy and the subsequent convulsive preparations to capture every last drop of it ("...with milk cans, pea tins, jam-pots") are honest to the rich sensations of childhood experience. The poem itself is laden with strange rich fruit, sweet clammy experience ready to be tasted and stored. This, finally, is art true to life. Aamir. [Minstrels Links] Poems by Seamus Heaney: Poem #61 , Song Poem #883 , Personal Helicon Poem #934 , Blackberry-picking Poems on related topics: Poem #827 , Strawberries Edwin Morgan Poem #274 , This Is Just To Say William Carlos Williams Poem #377 , Loveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman

59. Seamus Heaney — Infoplease.com Anger and nostalgia seamus heaney and the ghost of the father.(Critical Essay) (EireIreland a Journal of Irish Studies) http://www.infoplease.com/ce6/people/A0823109.html

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60. Online NewsHour: The New Beowulf -- March 28, 2000 The poet and translator, seamus heaney, was born on a farm in Northern Ireland, seamus heaney Well, I read the poem when I was an undergraduate. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/jan-june00/beowulf.html

var gaJsHost = (("https:" == document.location.protocol) ? "https://ssl." : "http://www."); document.write(unescape("%3Cscript src='" + gaJsHost + "google-analytics.com/ga.js' type='text/javascript'%3E%3C/script%3E")); THE NEW BEOWULF March 28, 2000 Senior correspondent Elizabeth Farnsworth interviews author Seamus Heaney about his new translation of the epic poem, Beowulf Jan. 21, 2000: A conversation with John Irving Nov. 30, 1999 National Book Awards: Ha Jin. Nov. 23, 1999: National Book Awards: John Dower Nov. 22, 1999 National Book Awards: Kimberly Willis Holt Nov. 19, 1999 National Book Awards: Ai. Oct. 1, 1999: Nobel Prize Winner: Günter Grass. Browse the NewsHour's coverage of the Arts. The 1995 Nobel Prize: Seamus Heaney ELIZABETH FARNSWORTH: A new translation of the epic poem "Beowulf" by the Irish poet Seamus Heaney is improbably on bestseller lists in several major U.S. cities, Los Angeles and San Francisco, among them. The poem was written in Old English more than 1,000 years ago. It tells the tale of the Scandinavian warrior, Beowulf, who slays two hellish demons and then in old age, brave beyond reason, is fatally wounded in a battle with a fiery dragon.

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