| Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)Includes the names: S Heaney, Seamus Haney, Ш. Хини, Seamus Heany, Shamus Heaney, Seanus Heaney, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaney, Seamus Heaneyl, ed. Seamus Heaney ... (see complete list), Seamus Heaney ed., tr. Heaney Seamus, tr. Seamus Heaney, trans. Seamus Heany, Seamus Trans. Heaney, Seamus Heaney trans., trans. Seamus Heaney, trans. Seamus Heaney, Шејмас Хини, transl. Seamus Heaney, Шеймас Хини, Seamus translator Heany, By (author) Seamus Heaney, SEKECTED BY SEAMUS HEANEY, Translator: Seamus Heaney, Seamus - Translator Heaney, Sheamus Heaney (translator), Translated by Seamus Heaney, Translated by Seamus Heaney, シェイマス ヒーニー, ed. and trans. Seamus Heaney, Translation by Seamus Heaney, Translation by Seamus Heaney | 33,515 (38,802) | 525 | 474 |  (3.89) | 75 | 0 | 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. 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) — biography from Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 … (more) |
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Seamus Heaney has 3 past events. (show) Into the Heart of the Ordinary: Seamus Heaney, Thomas Hardy and the Divided Tradition of Modern and Contemporary Poetry Robert W. Woodruff Library, Jones Room 540 Asbury Circle Atlanta, Georgia, 30332 Ron Schuchard, the Goodrich C. White Professor of English Emeritus at Emory, discusses the connections between the poetry of Thomas Hardy and Seamus Heaney from the actual to the marvelous.
Free and open to the public. (jasbro)… (more)Living Poets Society Poetry Bookclub Meeting -- "Seeing Things" Living Poets Society, the BBS in-store poetry bookclub, will be reading and discussing Seeing Things by Seamus Heaney. Please note that the November meeting will be held on the Third Tuesday of the month, instead of the second. The Living Poets Society Bookclub is open to the public and meets at 7pm on the second Tuesday of every month in the Upper North Room of Boulder Book Store. Unless otherwise noted, the author will not be present at the discussion.
Location: Street: 1107 Pearl St City: Boulder, Province: Colorado Postal Code: 80302 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Faber & Faber present Seamus Heaney in Conversation Event location: Wyndham's Theatre, Charing Cross Road, London, WC2H ODA
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