Monday the 12th
"the deer of poetry stood
in pools of lucent sound
ready to scare."
Station Island by Seamus Heaney
Seamus Heaney Poems
Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber, 1966) , Door into the Dark (Faber & Faber, 1969) , Wintering Out (Faber & Faber, 1972) , Stations (Ulsterman Publications, 1975) , North (Faber & Faber, 1975) , Field Work (Faber & Faber, 1979) , Selected Poems 1965-1975 (Faber & Faber, 1980) , Station Island (Faber & Faber, 1984) , The Haw Lantern (Faber & Faber, 1987) , New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (Faber & Faber, 1990) , Seeing Things (Faber & Faber, 1991) , Sweeney's Flight (with Rachel Giese, photographer) (Faber & Faber, 1992) , The Spirit Level (Faber & Faber, 1996) , Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996 (Faber & Faber, 1998) , Electric Light (Faber & Faber, 2001) , District and Circle (Faber & Faber, 2006) , Sweeney Astray: A version from the Irish (Field Day, 1983) , The Midnight Verdict :Translations from the Irish of Brian Merriman and from the Metamorphoses of Ovid (Gallery Press, 1993) , Jan Kochanowski: Laments (Faber & Faber, 1995) , Beowulf (Faber & Faber, 1999) , Diary of One who Vanished (Faber & Faber, 1999) , Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978 (Faber & Faber, 1980) , The Government of the Tongue (Faber & Faber, 1988) , The Place of Writing (Emory University, 1989) , The Redress of Poetry: Oxford Lectures (Faber & Faber, 1995) , Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture (Gallery Press, 1995) , Finders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001 (Faber & Faber, 2002) , The Cure at Troy A version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (Field Day, 1990) , The Burial at Thebes A version of Sophocles' Antigone (Faber & Faber, 2004)
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
This page attempts to bring together for the student's critical understanding, the social, political, historical and literary context in which Seamus Heaney writes. Seamus Heaney was born in Derry, as were the sisters who first taught at the site where Ursula Frayne Catholic College now exists
The Seamus Heaney Portal
Site http://irena.blackmill.net/heaney/
Contact the poet through his publisher, Faber and Faber.:
Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Heaney (b. 1939)
Site http://www.poetryarchive.org/poetryarchive/singlePoet.do?poetId=1392
Seamus Heaney (b. 1939) was the eldest child of nine born to a farming family in County Derry, Northern Ireland. He won a scholarship to St Columb's College, Derry, beginning an academic career that would lead, through Queen's University Belfast, where his first books of poems were written, to positions including Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at Harvard and the Oxford Professor of Poetry. As a poet, Heaney has become both critically feted and publicly popular. Among his many awards are the Nobel Prize for Literature 1995 and the Whitbread prize (twice); he was made a Commandeur de L'Ordre des Arts et Lettres in 1996.
Seamus Heaney - Academy of American Poets
Site http://www.poets.org/poet.php/prmPID/211
Seamus Heaney was born on April 13, 1939, in Castledawson, County Derry, Northern Ireland. He earned a teacher's certificate in English at St. Joseph's College in Belfast and in 1963 took a position as a lecturer in English at that school. While at St. Joseph's he began to write, joining a poetry workshop with Derek Mahon, Michael Longley, and others under the guidance of Philip Hobsbaum. In 1965 he married Marie Devlin, and the following year he published Death of a Naturalist.
Seamus Heaney - Faber & Faber
Site http://www.faber.co.uk/author_detail.html?auid=1996
Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ireland. He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of a Naturalist (1966). He attended the local school and in 1951 went as a boarder to St Columb's College, about 40 miles away in Derry (the poem 'Singing School' in North refers to this period of his life). In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University, Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in English Language and Literature in 1961. After a year as a post-graduate at a college of education, and a year teaching in a secondary modern school in Ballymurphy, he was appointed to the staff of St Joseph's College of Education. In 1966 Seamus Heaney took up a lecturing post in the English Department of Queen's University, and remained there until 1972, spending the academic year 1970-71 as a visiting Professor at the University of California in Berkeley.
Seamus Heaney - Literary Encyclopedia
Site http://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=2054
Seamus Heaney has been, for good or ill, internationally the most prominent and the most popular Irish poet of the latter part of the twentieth century and the first part of the twenty-first. His work is judged, and often considered superior to, that of a presumed super-league of poets in English from formerly colonised countries; a super-league including the West Indian Derek Walcott and the Australian Les Murray. Heaney's predominance is 'for good or ill' in the sense that he has proved a more criticised figure in Ireland than has been the case beyond. The consistently pastoral focus of his work, for instance (work which is often centred upon the rural community and landscape of Mossbawn in Co. Derry where he was brought up), is seen to be out of kilter with life in modern Ireland, north or south of the border. More significantly and symptomatically, Heaney's work has proved controversial in the context of the sectarian north of the island where he was raised. Protestant commentators have sometimes seen his concentration upon the traditions of the Catholic minority into which he was born as tantamount to making him a spokesman for the I.R.A. Nationalists seeking a united Ireland, meanwhile, have resented his lack of volubility on political issues and seen him as too ready to compromise with the literary establishment in London for his own ends. Heaney has always proved himself personally and poetically tactful, shrewd, and sure-footed in walking this difficult line between competing religious, social, and political pressures. However, yet further commentators have seen that very surefootedness as compromising Heaney's poetic voice, and been disappointed by the calmness and measuredness of the writing.
"We are one of the great stocks of Europe. We are the people of Burke; we are the people of Swift, the people of Emmet, the people of Parnell. We have created most of the modern literature of this country. We have created the best of its political intelligence."
W. B. Yeats, speech in the Irish Senate, June 11, 1925