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  <name><![CDATA[Seamus Heaney]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[Seamus Justin Heaney is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer from County Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, &quot;for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past.&quot; He currently lives in Dublin.]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Geoffrey Chaucer, Lord Byron, T. S. Eliot, Robert Frost, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Ted Hughes, Patrick Kavanagh, John Keats, Derek Mahon, Wilfred Owen, Samuel Palmer, William Shakespeare, J.M. Synge, William Wordsworth, William Butler Yeats]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>Castledawson, Northern Ireland</hometown>  <born_at>04/13/1939</born_at>    
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Selected Poems 1966-1987]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Death Of A Naturalist]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[North: Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Spirit Level]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Seeing Things: Poems]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Field Work]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone]]></title>
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  <title><![CDATA[Station Island]]></title>
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