Seamus Heaney

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Seamus Heaney is affiliated with the following schools: Harvard University, University of California, Berkeley, Queen's University Belfast, St Columb's College, Bates College

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Seamus Heaney

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#10

World Rank

#77

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Writing

#12

World Rank

#25

Historical Rank

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Seamus Heaney's Degrees

Bachelors English Language and Literature Queen's University Belfast
Masters English Literature Queen's University Belfast

Why Is Seamus Heaney Influential?

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According to Wikipedia, Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist , his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".

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Seamus Heaney's Published Works

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Published Works

The Spirit Level (2001) (549)
Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (1980) (152)
The Redress of Poetry (1990) (128)
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (1999) (113)
Finders keepers : selected prose, 1971-2001 (2003) (97)
Stepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney (2008) (88)
Opened ground : poems, 1966-1996 (1998) (78)
The Government Of The Tongue (1988) (76)
The cure at Troy : a version of Sophocles' Philoctetes (1991) (66)
Door into the Dark (1969) (59)
Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966-1996 (1998) (56)
The redress of poetry : Oxford lectures (1995) (53)
The government of the tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot memorial lectures and other critical writings (1988) (45)
Open Letter (1977) (41)
New Selected Poems 1966–1987 (1990) (39)
Finders Keepers (2002) (34)
Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1999) (31)
Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture (1995) (28)
District and Circle (2006) (27)
The government of the tongue : selected prose 1978-1987 (1990) (24)
The burial at Thebes : a version of Sophocles' Antigone (2004) (21)
An Interview with Seamus Heaney (1982) (21)
The Cure at Troy (1990) (18)
The drag of the golden chain (1999) (17)
Eclogues In Extremis: On the Staying Power of Pastoral (2022) (17)
The Place Of Writing (1989) (17)
Sounding Lines: The Art of Translating Poetry (1999) (13)
The rattle bag (1982) (13)
Selected Poems 1965–1975 (1980) (10)
The Placeless Heaven: Another Look at Kavanagh (1989) (10)
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish (1983) (10)
Homage to Robert Frost (1996) (10)
Poems, 1965-1975 (1980) (10)
The burial at Thebes : Sophocles' Antigone (2005) (9)
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation, Bilingual Edition (2001) (8)
Selected poems, 1966-1987 (1991) (8)
The Burial at Thebes (2004) (8)
Place and Displacement: Reflections on Some Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland (1992) (8)
Title deeds: translating a classic (2004) (8)
Crediting Poetry: The 1995 Nobel Lecture (1996) (7)
The Regional Forecast (1989) (6)
The Penguin Book of Irish Poetry (2010) (6)
The word exchange : Anglo-Saxon poems in translation (2011) (5)
Place and displacement : recent poetry of Northern Ireland : Pete Laver memorial lecture delivered at Grasmere 2nd August 1984 (1985) (5)
Anything can happen : a poem and essay (2004) (5)
Beowulf : a verse translation : authoritative text, contexts, criticism (2002) (5)
The redress of poetry : an inaugural lecture delivered before the University of Oxford on 24 October 1989 (1990) (4)
The testament of Cresseid and seven fables (2009) (4)
The Midnight Verdict (1993) (4)
Preoccupations: Selected Prose 1968-1978@@@Poems 1965-1975 / Selected Poems 1965-1975 (1981) (4)
Collected Short Stories (1997) (4)
Improving the quality of community health surveys and community health promotion campaigns by feedback from the community: experience from the Wallsend community and health project. (2010) (4)
The People Of The Sea: Celtic Tales of the Seal-Folk (2001) (4)
We Are Home (1996) (4)
Now and in England (1977) (3)
The Essential Wordsworth (1988) (3)
Seamus Heaney, Selected Poems (1998) (2)
Diary of One Who Vanished (1999) (2)
The Singer's House (2010) (2)
Born into the Troubles : Deirdre Madden ' s Hidden Symptoms (2007) (2)
"Place and Displacement": Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland (2015) (2)
Beowulf : an illustrated edition (2008) (2)
Editors’ Introduction (2017) (2)
From the Republic of Conscience (1990) (2)
Sweeney's flight: Based on the revised text of "Sweeney astray" : with the complete revised text of "Sweeney astray" (1992) (2)
Our shared Japan : an anthology of contemporary Irish poetry (2007) (2)
Robert Henryson: The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables (2010) (1)
The Rain Stick (2007) (1)
Suffering and Decision (2013) (1)
The biggest egg in the world (1987) (1)
Dylan the Durable? On Dylan Thomas (1992) (1)
Worlds : seven modern poets : Charles Causley, Thom Gunn, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Norman MacCaig, Adrian Mitchell, Edwin Morgan (1974) (1)
LIKE PILGRIMS TO THIS MOMENT: MYTH, HISTORY, AND POLITICS IN THE EARLY WRITING OF (2008) (1)
St Kevin and the Blackbird. (2019) (1)
On Irish Expressionist Painting (1988) (1)
The Peter Laver Memorial Lecture “Place and Displacement”: Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland (1985) (2006) (1)
Spelling it out : in honour of Brian Friel on his 80th birthday (2009) (1)
Canopy: A Work for Voice and Light in Harvard Yard: with a poem by Seamus Heaney and texts by Parveen Adams and Ivan Gaskell (1997) (1)
The poet's chair : the first nine years of the Ireland Chair of Poetry (2008) (1)
When Gael Joins Greek (1992) (1)
Seamus Heaney's Places of Writing@@@The Place of Writing (1990) (1)
The makings of a music: Reflections on the poetry of Wordsworth and Yeats : delivered on 9 February, 1978 (1978) (1)
The Sign of the Cross (1988) (1)
The Peter Laver Memorial Lecture "Place and Displacement": Recent Poetry from Northern Ireland (1985) (1)
school bag (1997) (1)
Oscar Wilde Dedication:: Westminster Abbey, 14 February 1995 (1998) (1)
Celebrating Harper Festival Keynote Address 1 (2016) (0)
Outer and Inner Poetry (1981) (0)
Raftery’s Killeadan, and: Cill Liadáin (1996) (0)
More Poetry Matters (1976) (0)
Lenten parish programme (1988) (0)
New poems 1970-71 (1971) (0)
Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin (1983) (0)
Translation of Inferno, Canto 2 (1998) (0)
‘A fusillade of question marks’: Poetry and the Troubles in Northern Ireland (2006) (0)
Function of State (2001) (0)
Testimony: The Ajax Incident by Seamus Heaney (2004) (0)
A Whetstone for the Mind: 1981 March 1-7 (1997) (0)
The Press Democracy Loses Its Best Friend What's Politico Doing to Journalism? the Anchorman in Winter Obama's Cool Explained Can Hillary Run the World? (2009) (0)
Du Bellay in Rome (2013) (0)
Stripped Pine Poetry (1998) (0)
‘The Terror of his Vision’: Yeats and Irish Poetry (2000) (0)
Shorts for Simic (2016) (0)
The Testament of Cresseid (2004) (0)
WHAT PASSED AT COLONUS (Poem) (2004) (0)
An Invocation: In Memoriam Hugh MacDiarmid (2016) (0)
Vitruviana, and: Felim Egan: A Catalogue Note (2017) (0)
"The b oundaries of the land": Sectarian Division and the Politicization of Space in the Poetry of (1996) (0)
Statement of Seamus Heaney 1995 nobel prize winner in literature in front of the U.S. embassy in Dublin, 11 September 1999 (2000) (0)
Seamus Heaney: A Forgotten Interview (2015) (0)
The Grove. Working Papers on English Studies 27 (2020): 57-70. DOI: 10.17561/grove.v27.a4 IDENTITIES IN SEAMUS HEANEY’S TRANSLATION OF BEOWULF IDENTIDADES EN LA TRADUCCIÓN DE BEOWULF POR SEAMUS HEANEY (2020) (0)
Introduction: the poetics of identity (2004) (0)
暴君ネロ,チェホフのコニャック,ノッカ- (1996) (0)
Literatures: Consolation, Redress and New Beginnings in the Work of (2016) (0)
Cinco poemas de Seamus Heaney (1988) (0)
The Place of Writing: place, poetry, politics in the writing of (2016) (0)
Beowulf's Departure from Denmark (2016) (0)
The sounds of rain (1988) (0)
In their element : a selection of poems (1977) (0)
Heaney's Progress (1988) (0)
From the Republic of Conscience (Nouvelles de la République de la Conscience) (1990) (0)
Getting the Picture: On Dermot Seymour’s Painting the Russians Will Water Their Horses on the Shores of Lough Neagh (2017) (0)
From the Celtic to the Abstract: Shifting Perspectives in the Music of John Buckley Born on the 19th of December 1951, John Buckley is regarded as one of the finest Irish composers of his generation. Alongside Gerald (2010) (0)
Reading, October 1, 2003 (2010) (0)
Out of This World (2016) (0)
Something to Protect (2001) (0)
Banks of a Canal (2016) (0)
To Be Most the Poet (1995) (0)
Ireland: The Living Landscape (1992) (0)
Muerte de un naturalista = Death of a naturalist (1996) (0)
“Summer,” Translations from the Ninth Century (2017) (0)
To Edward Thomas on the Lagans Road (2005) (0)
Roofbeam, Whitewash, Flagstone, Hearth (1984) (0)
In the Limbo of Languages : Linguistic Change in Seamus (2013) (0)
REPORT ON SESSION 7: "SEVERAL TRANSLATIONS OF THE SAME TEXT" (1999) (0)
The Podium: "Are You Doing Any Poetry With Them?" (2016) (0)
Luz eléctrica : Electric light (2003) (0)
Pit Stop near Castletown (2016) (0)
Volume Information (1982) (0)
Palinurus: Aeneid, Book VI, Lines 349-383 (2008) (0)
Poetry is more a threshold than a path, one constantly departed from, at which readers and writers undergo, in their different ways, the experience of being at the same time summoned and released. (2013) (0)
From the Window of the House (2013) (0)
The Cock and the Jasp (2007) (0)
REPORT ON SESSION 6: "THE ROLE OF THE AUTHOR" (1999) (0)
"Now the Oil-Fired Heating Boiler Comes to Life" (2008) (0)
ENGLISH LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE (EMC) (2015) (0)
As We Roved Out; Intimidation; Nocturne; Rubric (1971) (0)
Advent parish programme (1987) (0)
HIGH STREET, BELFAST, 1786 (1969) (0)
Offprinted from MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW (2015) (0)
A Lough Neagh sequence (1969) (0)
A is for Africa, B is for Belonging (1975) (0)
IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUSTICE IN NORTHERN IRELAND (2020) (0)
El estado de las letras (1996) (0)
España Language and music in Galicia and Ireland in the early 20 th century (2020) (0)
Stiles and Stacks, Old and New (2002) (0)
Juno and the paycock ; Within the gates ; Red roses for me ; Cock-a-doodle dandy (1998) (0)
From The Tollund Man in Springtime (2005) (0)
Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext@@@Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney (2001) (0)
Leaving the Island (2015) (0)
The Glamoured (1998) (0)
Seamus Heaney collection, 1972-2014 (2005) (0)
Enter Tiresias (2005) (0)
Official opening of the Bar Library (2020) (0)
Sperenza in reading (1995) (0)
House in Order (1999) (0)
Letters to David Hammond, 1968-2005 (2007) (0)
Poets, sculptors, sophists and other clients: six poems by Constantine Cavafy (2005) (0)
Heaney and Bog Bodies Narratives: Literary Translation as Archaeology (2021) (0)
The Skylight / La Lucarne (1992) (0)
To George Seferis in the Underworld (Poem) (2004) (0)
1980 anthology : Arvon Foundation Poetry Competition (1982) (0)
The Sacrament Machine: Rumbles from the Production Line (1975) (0)
Poetic Theory and Practice (1996) (0)
Petals on Sandymount Strand (2012) (0)
Frank Bidart: A Salute (2016) (0)
Time Present & Time Past : The Art of A.G. Smith (1993) (0)

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