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Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)

Autor de Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996

197+ Obras 13,687 Miembros 139 Reseñas 76 Preferidas

Sobre El Autor

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. mostrar más 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) mostrar menos
Créditos de la imagen: Photo by Norman McBeath, courtesy of Faber Books

Series

Obras de Seamus Heaney

Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (1990) 1,227 copias
The Rattle Bag (1982) — Editor — 915 copias
Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] (2002) — Traductor; Traductor — 886 copias
Death of a Naturalist (1966) 710 copias
District and Circle (2006) 639 copias
The Spirit Level (1996) 616 copias
Norte (1975) 501 copias
Seeing Things (1991) 493 copias
Electric Light (2001) 454 copias
Station Island (1984) 425 copias
Human Chain (2010) 419 copias
Field Work (1979) 407 copias
The redress of poetry (1995) 359 copias
The Haw Lantern (1987) 305 copias
Sweeney Astray (0800) 303 copias
Aeneid: Book VI [in translation] (0029) — Traductor — 211 copias
The School Bag (1997) — Editor — 191 copias
100 Poems (2018) 149 copias
Door into the Dark (1969) 146 copias
Wintering Out (1972) 145 copias
Selected Poems 1988-2013 (2014) 134 copias
Beowulf: abridged audio (2000) 77 copias
Homage to Robert Frost (1996) — Contribuidor — 64 copias
Sweeney's Flight (1900) 26 copias
The Midnight Verdict (1993) 25 copias
The Complete Translations (2023) 21 copias
På väg : dikter (1994) 19 copias
Collected Poems (1999) 18 copias
Vereffeningen gedichten (1991) 12 copias
Seamus Heaney (1988) 11 copias
Ojanpiennarten kuningas (1995) 11 copias
Tonen som kom (1989) 7 copias
Poèmes, 1966-1984 (1988) 6 copias
Una porta sul buio (1998) 6 copias
Attraversamenti (1995) 4 copias
The testament of Cresseid (2004) 4 copias
Vattenpasset (2002) 4 copias
Antologia Poética (1994) 4 copias
The Poet and the Piper (2003) 4 copias
Ukkosvaloa (1997) 4 copias
Poesie scelte (1996) 3 copias
Conlán 2 copias
Selected Poems 2 copias
44 wiersze (1994) 2 copias
The Riverbank Field (2007) 2 copias
Sonetos: Edicion Bilingue (2008) 2 copias
Stations (1975) 1 copia
Eleven Poems 1 copia
Salmagundi 1 copia
Cadena humana (2011) 1 copia
Tree Clock 1 copia
ALFABETE 1 copia
Auguri: to Mary Kelleher (2009) 1 copia
Distrito Y Circular (2014) 1 copia
Hundra dikter (2022) 1 copia
Ploughshares 20: Spring 1980 — Guest Editor — 1 copia
Zawierzyć poezji (1996) 1 copia
Catena umana (2011) 1 copia
Bog Poems (1975) 1 copia
Die Poesie würdigen (2000) 1 copia
W.B. Yeats 1 copia
New and Selected Poems (2014) 1 copia
Regio en ring gedichten (2009) 1 copia
Seamus Heaney Box Set (2013) 1 copia
Laments (2015) 1 copia
Fältarbete 1 copia
創作の場所 (2001) 1 copia

Obras relacionadas

Beowulf (1000) — Introducción, algunas ediciones; Traductor, algunas ediciones; Narrador, algunas ediciones25,348 copias
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Contribuidor — 1,262 copias
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones625 copias
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume A (2005) — Traductor, algunas ediciones427 copias
Un estilo de vida como cualquier otro (1978) — Introducción — 311 copias
W. B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (2000) — Editor, algunas ediciones295 copias
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones286 copias
The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend (1954) — Introducción, algunas ediciones221 copias
The Art of Losing (2010) — Contribuidor — 199 copias
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Contribuidor — 196 copias
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones167 copias
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Contribuidor — 153 copias
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (2010) — Prólogo, algunas ediciones152 copias
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Contribuidor — 141 copias
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables (1500) — Traductor — 126 copias
Granta 111: Going Back (2010) — Contribuidor — 113 copias
Emergency Kit (1996) — Contribuidor, algunas ediciones108 copias
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Contribuidor — 92 copias
Laments (1981) — Traductor, algunas ediciones82 copias
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Contribuidor — 72 copias
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Contribuidor — 69 copias
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Contribuidor — 63 copias
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Contribuidor — 33 copias
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Contribuidor — 32 copias
Poets from the North of Ireland (1979) — Contribuidor — 29 copias
One World of Literature (1992) — Contribuidor — 24 copias
James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992) — Contribuidor — 19 copias
The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics (2014) — Contribuidor — 19 copias
AQA Anthology (2002) — Autor, algunas ediciones19 copias
Modern Poets: Four (1968) — Autor — 17 copias
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Contribuidor — 16 copias
Oxford Readings in Vergil's Eclogues (2008) — Contribuidor — 9 copias
The Art of translation : voices from the field (1989) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Antaeus: Fiction, Poetry, Documents - Jubilee Edition (1991) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
The New Salmagundi Reader (1996) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
Archipelago: Number Two - Spring 2008 (2008) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Archipelago, Number One, Summer 2007 (2007) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Beowulf — Traductor, algunas ediciones1 copia

Etiquetado

Conocimiento común

Nombre canónico
Heaney, Seamus
Nombre legal
Heaney, Seamus Justin
Fecha de nacimiento
1939
Fecha de fallecimiento
2013-08-30
Género
male
Nacionalidad
Noord-Ierland, UK
Lugar de nacimiento
Castledawson, Northern Ireland, UK
Lugar de fallecimiento
Dublin, Ireland
Lugares de residencia
Mossbawn, County Derry, Noord-Ierland, UK
Educación
Queen's University Belfast (BA|1961)
Ocupaciones
poet
professor
Relaciones
Heaney, Marie (spouse)
Organizaciones
Queen's University Belfast
Harvard University
Oxford University
Premios y honores
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1995)
Agente
Steven Barclay Agency
Biografía breve
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.

Miembros

Debates

Seamus Heaney en Poetry Fool (enero 2017)
TIOLI September 2013: Seamus Heaney Memorial Challenge en 75 Books Challenge for 2013 (septiembre 2013)

Reseñas

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
… (más)
 
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Zedseayou | 8 reseñas más. | 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.… (más)
 
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thesmellofbooks | otra reseña | 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.
… (más)
 
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Caroline_McElwee | Nov 30, 2023 |
I prefer the original but this was well done.
 
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VictorHalfwit | 2 reseñas más. | Oct 19, 2023 |

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55
Miembros
13,687
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Valoración
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139
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