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The Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney died this morning in Dublin at the age of 74. In a remembrance, poet and critic Craig Morgan Teicher writes that Heaney had mastered sound and ...
Seamus Heaney at a turf bog in Bellaghy wearing his father's coat, hat and walking stick and additional shots in the Bellaghy bog, 1986. Bobbie Hanvey, photographer. (Credit: Flickr user bc ...
Seamus Heaney, a greatly loved poet when he died ten years ago, wrote great poems of love - love of different kinds. His daughter Catherine delves into their rich variety. Show more ...
Lin-Manuel Miranda reads Seamus Heaney poem in honour of Biden’s love for the Irish poet ‘My colleagues always kid me about quoting Irish poets all the time. They think I do it because I’m ...
Stephanie Burt writes about Seamus Heaney’s posthumous poetry collection “100 Poems,” which highlights his work as a poet of friendship and family.
Culture Seamus Heaney Poems Come To Life In Belfast, Ireland May 31, 20174:31 PM ET Heard on All Things Considered By ...
Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Aug. 30 at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74.
Yet many of Heaney’s best poems are those which pay attention to the attention of others. Take ‘Sunlight’, for example, the very first poem in Heaney’s 1975 collection, North.
“It’s impossible, I think, to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney,” offers Skinner, who counts Alexander Pope, Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins among his favourites.
The Frontier of Writing: A Study of Seamus Heaney’s Prose edited by Ian Hickey and Eugene O’Brien; Citizen Poet: New & Selected Essays by Eavan Boland; Questioning Ireland by Thomas McCarthy ...
Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of home swirled in her head.
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