Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)

Autore di 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. mostra altro 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) mostra meno

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Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 (1998) 1,476 copie

Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (1990) 1,227 copie

The Rattle Bag (1982) — A cura di — 915 copie

Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] (2002) — Traduttore; Traduttore — 886 copie

Death of a Naturalist (1966) 710 copie

District e Circle - poesie (23) (2006) 638 copie

The Spirit Level (1996) 616 copie

North (1975) 501 copie

Veder cose (1991) 493 copie

The Burial at Thebes: A Version of Sophocles' Antigone (0442) 476 copie

Poems, 1965-1975: Death of a Naturalist / Door Into the Dark / Wintering Out / North (1980) 474 copie

Electric Light (2001) 454 copie

Station Island (1984) 425 copie

Human Chain (2010) 419 copie

Field Work (1979) 407 copie

La riparazione della poesia: lezioni di Oxford (1995) 359 copie

La lanterna di biancospino (1987) 305 copie

Sweeney Astray (0800) 303 copie

The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1991) 267 copie

Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971-2001 (2002) 253 copie

Aeneid: Book VI [in translation] (0029) — Traduttore — 211 copie

The School Bag (1997) — A cura di — 191 copie

Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (1980) 184 copie

The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 (1988) 164 copie

100 Poems (2018) 149 copie

Door into the Dark (1969) 146 copie

Wintering Out (1972) 145 copie

Selected Poems 1988-2013 (2014) 134 copie

Beowulf: abridged audio (2000) 77 copie

Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture (1995) 65 copie

Homage to Robert Frost (1996) — Collaboratore — 64 copie

The Translations of Seamus Heaney (2022) 26 copie

Sweeney's Flight (1900) 26 copie

The Midnight Verdict (1993) 25 copie

The Complete Translations (2023) 21 copie

The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023) 20 copie

På väg : dikter (1994) 19 copie

Collected Poems (1999) 18 copie

Great Poets of the 20th Century: Seamus Heaney (2008) 14 copie

Vereffeningen gedichten (1991) 12 copie

POEMS AND A MEMOIR BY SEAMUS HEANEY. (1982) 12 copie

Lifelines: An anthology of poems chosen by famous people (1993) 12 copie

Seamus Heaney (1988) 11 copie

Ojanpiennarten kuningas (1995) 11 copie

Anything can happen : a poem and essay (2004) 11 copie

Dit man hör : litterära essäer (1996) 9 copie

Stepping Stones (Audio, Faber) (1995) 8 copie

Spelling it Out Limited Edition (300) (2009) 7 copie

Stone from Delphi 7 copie

Ireland's Living Voices: Short Fiction from Ireland's Best Contemporary Writers (1985) 7 copie

Tonen som kom (1989) 7 copie

Poems (1 vol Stock no.424) (1995) 6 copie

Poèmes, 1966-1984 (1988) 6 copie

Obra reunida : edición bilingüe : Isla de las estaciones / Viendo visiones / La luz de las hojas / El nivel / Sonetos… (2015) 6 copie

Una porta sul buio (1998) 6 copie

Poemas (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (1998) 6 copie

Beowulf A New Verse Translation Hardcover 6 copie

100 poemas: 6 (Alba Poesía) (2019) 5 copie

'Room to rhyme' : 'Greatest Minds Lecture' delivered at the celebration of graduation at the… (2004) 5 copie

Attraversamenti (1995) 4 copie

Die Herrschaft der Sprache : Essays und Vorlesungen (1992) 4 copie

The testament of Cresseid (2004) 4 copie

Vattenpasset (2002) 4 copie

Three stanzas : Miroslaw Balka, Robert Gober, Seamus Heaney (1999) 4 copie

The Place of Writing (Emory Studies in Humanities) (1989) 4 copie

Seamus Heaney II Collected Poems (published 1979-1991): Field Work; Station Island; The Haw Lantern; Seeing Things (2018) 4 copie

Antologia Poética (1994) 4 copie

The Poet and the Piper (2003) 4 copie

Soran ääniä : Seamus Heaneyn runoja (2007) 4 copie

Poems: "Field Work", "Station Island", "Haw Lantern", "Seeing Things" v. 2 (1995) 4 copie

de La Emocion a Las Palabras: Ensayos Literarios (Coleccion Argumentos) (Spanish Edition) (1996) 4 copie

Sansen for plassen og andre essays (1996) 4 copie

Ukkosvaloa (1997) 4 copie

Poesie. Testo inglese a fronte (2016) 3 copie

New and Selected Poems 3 copie

The May Anthology of Oxford & Cambridge Poetry, 1993 (1993) 3 copie

Ireland - changes and challenges : short stories (2008) 3 copie

Al buen entendedor. Ensayos escogidos (Lengua Y Estudios Literarios) (Spanish Edition) (2006) 3 copie

Seamus Heaney: Poems: 4 Vol Boxed Set 3 copie

Blooming through the ashes : an international anthology on violence and the human spirit (2008) 3 copie

Poesie scelte (1996) 3 copie

L'étrange et le connu : Edition bilingue français-anglais (2005) 3 copie

Kolejowe dzieci : wiersze i prozy (1998) 3 copie

An Open Letter (A Field Day pamphlet) (1983) 3 copie

Conlán 2 copie

La reparación de la poesía (2013) 2 copie

Seamus Heaney collection 2 copie

The Whoseday Book : a millennium journal / [editor, Marie Donnelly ; introduction by patron Seamus Heaney ; foreword by… 2 copie

The Government of the Tongue: Selected Pros, 1978-1987 2 copie

Makings of a Music: Reflections on the Poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats (The Kenneth Allott lectures) (1978) 2 copie

Rare The Haw Lantern - by Seamus Heaney - Nobel Prize Poet - First Edition 2 copie

Something to Write Home About 2 copie

Barrie Cooke [Profile series 10] (1998) 2 copie

Selected Poems 2 copie

Mistroostig en thuis. Gedichten (1987) 2 copie

New Selected Poems 1988-2013 by Seamus Heaney (6-Nov-2014) Hardcover (1600) 2 copie

Die Amsel von Glanmore: Gedichte 1965 - 2006 (2011) 2 copie

Seamus Heaney I Collected Poems (published 1966-1975): Death of a Naturalist; Door into the Dark; Wintering Out; North (2018) 2 copie

Přezimování pod širým nebem (2002) 2 copie

44 wiersze (1994) 2 copie

Play Burial at Thebes *Theatre* (2004) 2 copie

The Riverbank Field (2007) 2 copie

Sonetos: Edicion Bilingue (2008) 2 copie

Dylan the durable? : on Dylan Thomas (1992) 2 copie

Antologia Poética 2 copie

Rare Seamus Heaney OPENED GROUND SELECTED POEMS 1966-1996 First Edition 1998 -Farrar Straus and Giroux [FSG 1 copia

Stations (1975) 1 copia

Eleven Poems 1 copia

Calat i neguit : sobre la traducció de Beowulf = La angustia y la segueta : la traducción del Beowulf 1 copia

The Cure at Troy A Version of Sophocles Philoctetes 1 copia

“The Early Purges” 1 copia

Seamus Heaney: The Shaping Spirit (1996) 1 copia

Salmagundi 1 copia

Cadena humana (2011) 1 copia

Burial at Thebes, The ; 1 copia

“Punishment” 1 copia

Jasanová hůl 1 copia

Seamus Heaney at Harvard: Heaney reads his own and other poems (audiobook) 1 copia

The School Bag 1 copia

Tree Clock 1 copia

シェイマス・ヒーニー全詩集 1966~1991 (1995) 1 copia

Школа пения. Стихотворения 1966-2002 1 copia

Чур, мое! : избранные эссе и стихотворения : [перевод с… 1 copia

Poems and a Memoir 1 copia

Поленов талог 1 copia

Seamus Heaney, a personal selection : August 20-October 24 1982 1 copia

ALFABETE 1 copia

Auguri: to Mary Kelleher (2009) 1 copia

"Are you doing any poetry with them?" (The Podium).(teaching poetry in Belfast, Northern Ireland)(Brief Article): An… 1 copia

Distrito Y Circular (2014) 1 copia

Singing School. Poems. 1966-2002 1 copia

Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney 1 copia

Hundra dikter (2022) 1 copia

Ploughshares 20: Spring 1980 — Guest Editor — 1 copia

A Little Book of Ledwidge: A Selection of the Poems and Letters of Francis Ledwidge (2017) — With an assessment by — 1 copia

Glanmore sonnets 1 copia

Interactions: A Collection (2012) 1 copia

Poems and a Memoir - Seamus Heaney 1 copia

Zawierzyć poezji (1996) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney Collected Poems II 1 copia

La lucarne/L'étrange et le connu (2018) 1 copia

[(Beowulf)] [By (author) Seamus Heaney] published on (October, 2000) 1 copia

Beowulf: A Verse Translation: A Norton Critical Edition: 0 (Norton Critical Editions) 1 copia

In their element : a selection of poems 1 copia

Singing School/Poems 1966-2002 1 copia

Catena umana (2011) 1 copia

Willam Wordsworth: Selected Poems 1 copia

Attraversamenti. Con nuovi inediti e un'intervista al poeta. Testo inglese a fronte (2005) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney, a life well written (2022) 1 copia

Articulations: Poetry, Philosophy and the Shaping of Culture (2008) 1 copia

Once on a Side: An Evening with Seamus Heaney and Robert Frost 1 copia

Soundings '72. An annual anthology of new irish poetry. (1972) 1 copia

The Door Stands Open : Czeslaw Milosz 1911-2004 1 copia

Gravities: A Collection of Poems and Drawings (1979) 1 copia

Bog Poems (1975) 1 copia

Selected Poems: 1931-2004 1 copia

The Gist: A Celebration of the Imagination (2012) 1 copia

Die Poesie würdigen (2000) 1 copia

A vision of Modern Art : In memory of Dorothy Walker (2004) 1 copia

The fire i' the flint : reflections on the poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1975) 1 copia

La lucarne : Edition bilingue français-anglais (2005) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney writes: The poems in Door into the dark are more dramatic than those in Death of a naturalist 1 copia

Die Wasserwaage : Gedichte ; englisch und deutsch = The spirit level (1998) 1 copia

Verteidigung der Poesie: Oxforder Vorlesungen (1996) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney Collected Poems CD 1 copia

The Outlaw (included in The Norton Introduction to Literature - 5th Edition) 1 copia

'The drag of the golden chain: how the translator 'gropes along', transmitting meaningful signals 'from the hoard to… 1 copia

W.B. Yeats 1 copia

32 Poems [Printout] 1 copia

Sounding lines : the art of translating poetry : Seamus Heaney and Robert Haas in conversation (2000) 1 copia

Ireland Journal V1 4/95 1 copia

Two decades of Irish writing : a critical survey (1975) 1 copia

By Seamus Heaney Death of a Naturalist (Reprint.) [Paperback] (1999) 1 copia

El nivel (Spanish Edition) (2008) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney III Collected Poems (published 1996-2010): The Spirit Level; Electric Light; District and Circle; Human… (2018) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney; 100 Poems 1 copia

kyvernisi tis glossas / κυβερνηση της γλωσσας (2008) 1 copia

New and Selected Poems (2014) 1 copia

Beowulf(Bilingual Edition) 1st (first) edition Text Only (2001) 1 copia

Regio en ring gedichten (2009) 1 copia

Nobel Prize acceptance speech 1 copia

Ocho poemes de Lluz Eléctrica 1 copia

Seamus Heaney Box Set (2013) 1 copia

Harvard University Art Museums Centenary: Three books: Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney; And the Stars Were Shining by… 1 copia

Among Schoolchildren. A lecture dedicated to the memory of John Malone given by Seamus Heaney on Thursday 9th June,… (1983) 1 copia

'The god in the tree: early Irish nature poetry' (The Pleasures of Gaelic Poetry, ed. Seán MacRéamoinn) 1 copia

VIENDO VISIONES 1 copia

Laments (2015) 1 copia

Scavando: poesie scelte (1966-1990) 1 copia

Seamus Heaney: Seamus Heaney talks to Kirsty Wark, Something to write home about [Interview & Documentary, 2004] 1 copia

Fältarbete 1 copia

From the Republic of Conscience 1 copia

Il governo della lingua: prose scelte 1978-1987 (1998) 1 copia

Schools and Schooling, 1650-2000 New Perspectives on the History of Education 1 copia

'The poetry of John Hewitt' (Threshold, 1972) 1 copia

Commencement address, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, May 12, 1996 1 copia

創作の場所 (2001) 1 copia

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World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Collaboratore — 448 copie

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William Wordsworth: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (Poet to Poet: An Essential Choice of Classic Verse) (1988) — A cura di — 76 copie

The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Collaboratore — 72 copie

Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (2006) — Collaboratore — 72 copie

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Informazioni generali

Nome canonico: Heaney, Seamus
Nome legale: Heaney, Seamus Justin
Data di nascita: 1939
Data di morte: 2013-08-30
Sesso: male
Nazionalità: Noord-Ierland, UK
Luogo di nascita: Castledawson, Northern Ireland, UK
Luogo di morte: Dublin, Ireland
Luogo di residenza: Mossbawn, County Derry, Noord-Ierland, UK
Istruzione: Queen's University Belfast (BA|1961)
Attività lavorative: poet
professor
Relazioni: Heaney, Marie (spouse)
Organizzazioni: Queen's University Belfast
Harvard University
Oxford University
Premi e riconoscimenti: Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1995)
Agente: Steven Barclay Agency
Breve biografia: 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.

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Opened Ground di Seamus Heaney

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… (altro)

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Zedseayou | 8 altre recensioni | Jan 30, 2024 |

100 Poems di Seamus Heaney

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.… (altro)

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thesmellofbooks | 1 altra recensione | Dec 21, 2023 |

The Letters of Seamus Heaney di Seamus Heaney

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.… (altro)

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Caroline_McElwee | Nov 30, 2023 |