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Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)

Författare till Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996

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Seamus Heaney was born in Mossbawn, Ireland on April 13, 1939. He received a degree in English from Queen's College in Belfast in 1961. After earning his teacher's certificate in English from St. Joseph's College in Belfast the following year, he took a position at the school as an English teacher. visa mer During his time as a teacher at St. Joseph's, he wrote and published work in the university magazine under the pen name Incertus. In 1966, he became an English literature lecturer at Queen's College in Belfast. His first volume of poems, Death of a Naturalist, went on to receive the E.C. Gregory Award, the Cholmondeley Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. After the death of his parents, Heaney published the poetry volumes The Haw Lantern, which includes a sonnet sequence memorializing his mother, and Seeing Things, a collection containing numerous poems for his father. His other works included Field Work, Opened Ground: Poems 1966-1996, and Human Chain. Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997 and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006. From 1989 to 1994 he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford and in 1996 was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Other awards that he received include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1968), the E. M. Forster Award (1975), the PEN Translation Prize (1985), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread Prizes (1996 and 1999). In 2012, he was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. His literary papers are held by the National Library of Ireland. He died following a short illness on August 30, 2013 at the age of 74. Heaney's last words were in a text to his wife Marie, "Noli timere", which means "Do not be afraid." (Bowker Author Biography) Seamus Heaney lives in Dublin and teaches at Harvard University. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995. (Publisher Provided) Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in Northern Ireland. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. A resident of Dublin, he has taught poetry at Oxford University and Harvard University. (Publisher Provided) visa färre
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Verk av Seamus Heaney

Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 (1998) 1,468 exemplar
Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (1990) 1,221 exemplar
The Rattle Bag (1982) — Redaktör — 916 exemplar
Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] (2002) — Översättare; Översättare — 882 exemplar
Death of a Naturalist (1966) 708 exemplar
District and Circle (2006) 635 exemplar
The Spirit Level (1996) 611 exemplar
North (1975) 499 exemplar
I syner : dikter (1991) 491 exemplar
Electric Light (2001) 454 exemplar
Station Island (1984) 423 exemplar
Human Chain (2010) 416 exemplar
Field Work (1979) 404 exemplar
The redress of poetry (1995) 359 exemplar
Hagtornslyktan : dikter (1987) 304 exemplar
Sweeney Astray (0800) 301 exemplar
Aeneid: Book VI [in translation] (0029) — Översättare — 211 exemplar
The School Bag (1997) — Redaktör — 191 exemplar
Door into the Dark (1969) 146 exemplar
100 Poems (2018) 145 exemplar
Wintering Out (1972) 144 exemplar
Selected Poems 1988-2013 (2014) 133 exemplar
Beowulf: abridged audio (2000) 77 exemplar
Homage to Robert Frost (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 64 exemplar
Sweeney's Flight (1900) 26 exemplar
The Midnight Verdict (1993) 25 exemplar
The Complete Translations (2023) 20 exemplar
På väg : dikter (1994) 19 exemplar
The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023) 19 exemplar
Collected Poems (1999) 18 exemplar
Vereffeningen gedichten (1991) 11 exemplar
Ojanpiennarten kuningas (1995) 11 exemplar
Seamus Heaney (1988) 10 exemplar
Stone from Delphi 7 exemplar
Tonen som kom (1989) 7 exemplar
Poems (1 vol Stock no.424) (1995) 6 exemplar
Poèmes, 1966-1984 (1988) 6 exemplar
Una porta sul buio (1998) 6 exemplar
100 poemas: 6 (Alba Poesía) (2019) 5 exemplar
Attraversamenti (1995) 4 exemplar
The testament of Cresseid (2004) 4 exemplar
Vattenpasset (2002) 4 exemplar
Antologia Poética (1994) 4 exemplar
The Poet and the Piper (2003) 4 exemplar
Ukkosvaloa (1997) 4 exemplar
Poesie scelte (1996) 3 exemplar
La reparación de la poesía (2013) 2 exemplar
Conlán 2 exemplar
Selected Poems 2 exemplar
44 wiersze (1994) 2 exemplar
The Riverbank Field (2007) 2 exemplar
Sonetos: Edicion Bilingue (2008) 2 exemplar
Antologia Poética 2 exemplar
Stations (1975) 1 exemplar
Eleven Poems 1 exemplar
Cadena humana (2011) 1 exemplar
“Punishment” 1 exemplar
Salmagundi 1 exemplar
Jasanová hůl 1 exemplar
Zawierzyć poezji 1 exemplar
Poems and a Memoir 1 exemplar
ALFABETE 1 exemplar
Auguri: to Mary Kelleher (2009) 1 exemplar
Distrito Y Circular (2014) 1 exemplar
Tree Clock 1 exemplar
Ploughshares 20: Spring 1980 — Guest Editor — 1 exemplar
The School Bag 1 exemplar
Glanmore sonnets 1 exemplar
Interactions: A Collection (2012) 1 exemplar
Hundra dikter (2022) 1 exemplar
Catena umana (2011) 1 exemplar
Bog Poems (1975) 1 exemplar
Die Poesie würdigen (2000) 1 exemplar
W.B. Yeats 1 exemplar
New and Selected Poems (2014) 1 exemplar
Regio en ring gedichten (2009) 1 exemplar
Seamus Heaney Box Set (2013) 1 exemplar
El nivel (Spanish Edition) (2008) 1 exemplar
VIENDO VISIONES 1 exemplar
Laments (2015) 1 exemplar
Fältarbete 1 exemplar
創作の場所 (2001) 1 exemplar

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Beowulf (1000) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor; Översättare, vissa utgåvor; Berättare, vissa utgåvor25,193 exemplar
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Bidragsgivare — 1,254 exemplar
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 829 exemplar
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor622 exemplar
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragsgivare — 447 exemplar
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume A (2005) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor424 exemplar
A Way of Life, Like Any Other (1978) — Inledning — 310 exemplar
W. B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (2000) — Redaktör, vissa utgåvor294 exemplar
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor284 exemplar
The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend (1954) — Inledning, vissa utgåvor220 exemplar
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Bidragsgivare — 201 exemplar
The Art of Losing (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 197 exemplar
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Bidragsgivare — 193 exemplar
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor166 exemplar
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 153 exemplar
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (2010) — Förord, vissa utgåvor152 exemplar
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Bidragsgivare — 140 exemplar
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables (1500) — Översättare — 125 exemplar
Granta 111: Going Back (2010) — Bidragsgivare — 113 exemplar
Emergency Kit (1996) — Bidragsgivare, vissa utgåvor108 exemplar
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 100 exemplar
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Bidragsgivare — 88 exemplar
Laments (1981) — Översättare, vissa utgåvor81 exemplar
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (2006) — Bidragsgivare — 72 exemplar
William Wordsworth: Poems. Selected by Seamus Heaney (1988) — Redaktör — 70 exemplar
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Bidragsgivare — 68 exemplar
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Bidragsgivare — 63 exemplar
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Bidragsgivare — 32 exemplar
Poets from the North of Ireland (1979) — Bidragsgivare — 29 exemplar
One World of Literature (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 24 exemplar
James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics (2014) — Bidragsgivare — 19 exemplar
AQA Anthology (2002) — Författare, vissa utgåvor19 exemplar
Modern Poets: Four (1968) — Författare — 17 exemplar
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 16 exemplar
Oxford Readings in Vergil's Eclogues (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 9 exemplar
The Art of translation : voices from the field (1989) — Bidragsgivare — 4 exemplar
Antaeus: Fiction, Poetry, Documents - Jubilee Edition (1991) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
The New Salmagundi Reader (1996) — Bidragsgivare — 3 exemplar
Archipelago: Number Two - Spring 2008 (2008) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar
Archipelago, Number One, Summer 2007 (2007) — Bidragsgivare — 2 exemplar

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Vedertaget namn
Heaney, Seamus
Namn enligt folkbokföringen
Heaney, Seamus Justin
Födelsedag
1939
Avled
2013-08-30
Kön
male
Nationalitet
Noord-Ierland, UK
Födelseort
Castledawson, Northern Ireland, UK
Dödsort
Dublin, Ireland
Bostadsorter
Mossbawn, County Derry, Noord-Ierland, UK
Utbildning
Queen's University Belfast (BA|1961)
Yrken
poet
professor
Relationer
Heaney, Marie (spouse)
Organisationer
Queen's University Belfast
Harvard University
Oxford University
Priser och utmärkelser
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1995)
Agent
Steven Barclay Agency
Kort biografi
Born in Londonderry in 1939, Nobel Prize winner Seamus Heaney is among the best in Northern Irish literature. Heaney is considered one of the greatest poets of the late twentieth century, with a spectrum of awards received in his lifetime, including the T. S. Eliot Prize and the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995. His most famous volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966) explored his childhood in Northern Ireland, from Roman Catholic influences, political life, and the death of his younger brother at age four, in ‘Mid-term Break’ (1966). As a Professor of Poetry at Harvard and Oxford University, he became a Professor at his own institution, Queen’s University, Belfast, which opened the Seamus Heaney centre for poetry in 2003.

Medlemmar

Diskussioner

Seamus Heaney i Poetry Fool (januari 2017)
TIOLI September 2013: Seamus Heaney Memorial Challenge i 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (september 2013)

Recensioner

I read Heaney for the first time more than 12 years ago now (thanks Mr. Masterman!) Death of a Naturalist was probably the second poem I can really remember thinking hard about. I wouldn't say I'm a poetry guy, but Heaney's command of sound and imagery gets me. Take Blackberry Picking, or The Gravel Walks; he can pull out feeling from the simplest of scenes. I'll add some thoughts here as I am reminded of particular pieces.

Digging
Mid-Term Break
Requiem for the Croppies
A Call
… (mer)
 
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Zedseayou | 8 andra recensioner | Jan 30, 2024 |
It almost seems irrelevant to write a review of this book. I mean, Seamus Heaney can’t get any better known or loved by me saying *I love this book*.

But I do. Just as I am stirred by his words, his perceptions, his way of capturing a thought or juxtaposing two things I would never think to put together (and no, I'm not carried off by every single one of these 100 poems, but by many, *many*, I am), I am also grateful to him. For his honesty, his vulnerability, his tenderness for selves and technologies and humans and leafy spaces that no longer are or are not yet, as in a poem to his toddler grandchild in later years. He has room for all of these in him, and I recognise my own complexity reflected in his, and am grateful for this gentle companion in life.… (mer)
 
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thesmellofbooks | 1 annan recension | Dec 21, 2023 |
I am going to miss sitting on Seamus Heaney's shoulder. For some reason I never did hear him live, though I saw many fine poets read in the 1980s/90s.

Heaney's family agreed to support and facilitate this project where necessary under the strict understanding no letters to family or close, non-public, friends appeared. The majority of the correspondents are poets, translators, editors and others in the publishing world. The thing that becomes most quickly apparent is that Seamus had a great gift for friendship, even if there isn't a letter in the volume that doesn't begin with an apology for the lateness in his reply to their letters.

The second thing is the great richness in attention he pays to the work sent to him by his friends, and that received by him (not included) by them, his gratitude is deep and buoyant.

Reading a lifetime's creative arc is fascinating, informative, invigorating. In Heaney's case though the success ultimately crowded out the silent time for writing poetry. It wasn't until late in his life that he learned to say no to the invitations to teach and speak around the world, and then it was his health that made it near impossible for him to write, as physical problems led to bouts of deep depression. Despite this though, his body of work is substantial.

Breaking the rigid agreement the last entry is a text to his wife Marie, as he was being wheeled into surgery 'Noli Timere' (do not be afraid). He died before reaching the operating theatre.
… (mer)
 
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Caroline_McElwee | Nov 30, 2023 |
I prefer the original but this was well done.
 
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VictorHalfwit | 2 andra recensioner | Oct 19, 2023 |

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Verk
196
Även av
54
Medlemmar
13,629
Popularitet
#1,703
Betyg
3.9
Recensioner
139
ISBN
371
Språk
19
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