Seamus Heaney






Seamus Heaney

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born
April 13, 1939

gender
male

place of birth
Castledawson, Northern Ireland, The United Kingdom

genre
Poetry

influences
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


about this author

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, "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past." He currently lives in Dublin.




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avg rating: 3.54 | 15,187 ratings | 1,127 reviews | 76 distinct works | 16 fans
Opened Ground: Selected Poems,... Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.36 — 513 ratings — published 1998
5 editions
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Selected Poems 1966-1987 Selected Poems 1966-1987
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.26 — 174 ratings — published 1990
2 editions
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Death Of A Naturalist Death Of A Naturalist
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.38 — 148 ratings — published 1966
4 editions
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North: Poems North: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.06 — 148 ratings — published 1975
11 editions
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District and Circle: Poems District and Circle: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.01 — 129 ratings — published 2006
4 editions
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The Spirit Level The Spirit Level
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.16 — 122 ratings — published 1996
8 editions
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Seeing Things: Poems Seeing Things: Poems
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.11 — 114 ratings — published 1991
6 editions
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Field Work Field Work
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.30 — 101 ratings — published 1979
5 editions
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The Burial at Thebes: A Versio... The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone
by Seamus Heaney (translator), Sophocles
avg rating 3.73 — 86 ratings — published 2004
7 editions
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Station Island Station Island
by Seamus Heaney
avg rating 4.18 — 71 ratings — published 1984
5 editions
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"Walk on air against your better judgement."
Seamus Heaney
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"It is always better
to avenge dear ones than to indulge in mourning.
For every one of us, living in this world
means waiting for our end. Let whoever can
win glory before death. When a warrior is gone,
that will be his best and only bulwark."
Seamus Heaney (Beowulf: A New Verse Translation)
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"Now it’s high watermark
and floodtide in the heart
and time to go.
The sea-nymphs in the spray
will be the chorus now.
What’s left to say?

Suspect too much sweet-talk
but never close your mind.
It was a fortunate wind
that blew me here. I leave
half-ready to believe
that a crippled trust might walk

and the half-true rhyme is love."
Seamus Heaney (The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes)
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