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Seamus Heaney (1939–2013)

Forfatter af 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. vis mere 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) vis mindre
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Værker af Seamus Heaney

Opened Ground: Poems 1966–1996 (1998) 1,468 eksemplarer
Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (1990) 1,221 eksemplarer
The Rattle Bag (1982) — Redaktør — 916 eksemplarer
Beowulf: A Verse Translation [Norton Critical Edition] (2002) — Oversætter; Oversætter — 882 eksemplarer
Death of a Naturalist (1966) 708 eksemplarer
District and Circle (2006) 635 eksemplarer
The Spirit Level (1996) 611 eksemplarer
North (1975) 499 eksemplarer
Seeing Things (1991) 491 eksemplarer
Electric Light (2001) 454 eksemplarer
Station Island (1984) 423 eksemplarer
Human Chain (2010) 416 eksemplarer
Markarbejde (1979) 404 eksemplarer
The redress of poetry (1995) 359 eksemplarer
The Haw Lantern (1987) 304 eksemplarer
Sweeney Astray (0800) 301 eksemplarer
Aeneid: Book VI [in translation] (0029) — Oversætter — 211 eksemplarer
The School Bag (1997) — Redaktør — 191 eksemplarer
Door into the Dark (1969) 146 eksemplarer
100 Poems (2018) 145 eksemplarer
Wintering Out (1972) 144 eksemplarer
Selected Poems 1988-2013 (2014) 133 eksemplarer
Beowulf: abridged audio (2000) 77 eksemplarer
Homage to Robert Frost (1996) — Bidragyder — 64 eksemplarer
The Translations of Seamus Heaney (2022) 26 eksemplarer
Sweeney's Flight (1900) 26 eksemplarer
The Midnight Verdict (1993) 25 eksemplarer
The Complete Translations (2023) 20 eksemplarer
På väg : dikter (1994) 19 eksemplarer
The Letters of Seamus Heaney (2023) 19 eksemplarer
Collected Poems (1999) 18 eksemplarer
Vereffeningen gedichten (1991) 11 eksemplarer
Ojanpiennarten kuningas (1995) 11 eksemplarer
Seamus Heaney (1988) 10 eksemplarer
Dit man hör : litterära essäer (1996) 9 eksemplarer
Stepping Stones (Audio, Faber) (1995) 8 eksemplarer
Stone from Delphi 7 eksemplarer
Tonen som kom (1989) 7 eksemplarer
Poems (1 vol Stock no.424) (1995) 6 eksemplarer
Poèmes, 1966-1984 (1988) 6 eksemplarer
Una porta sul buio (1998) 6 eksemplarer
Poemas (Em Portuguese do Brasil) (1998) 6 eksemplarer
100 poemas: 6 (Alba Poesía) (2019) 5 eksemplarer
Attraversamenti (1995) 4 eksemplarer
The testament of Cresseid (2004) 4 eksemplarer
Vattenpasset (2002) 4 eksemplarer
Antologia Poética (1994) 4 eksemplarer
The Poet and the Piper (2003) 4 eksemplarer
Ukkosvaloa (1997) 4 eksemplarer
Kolejowe dzieci : wiersze i prozy (1998) 3 eksemplarer
Poesie scelte (1996) 3 eksemplarer
New and Selected Poems 3 eksemplarer
Poesie. Testo inglese a fronte (2016) 3 eksemplarer
Barrie Cooke [Profile series 10] (1998) 2 eksemplarer
La reparación de la poesía (2013) 2 eksemplarer
Conlán 2 eksemplarer
Selected Poems 2 eksemplarer
Mistroostig en thuis. Gedichten (1987) 2 eksemplarer
Přezimování pod širým nebem (2002) 2 eksemplarer
44 wiersze (1994) 2 eksemplarer
The Riverbank Field (2007) 2 eksemplarer
Play Burial at Thebes *Theatre* (2004) 2 eksemplarer
Sonetos: Edicion Bilingue (2008) 2 eksemplarer
Antologia Poética 2 eksemplarer
Stations (1975) 1 eksemplar
Eleven Poems 1 eksemplar
Cadena humana (2011) 1 eksemplar
“Punishment” 1 eksemplar
Salmagundi 1 eksemplar
Jasanová hůl 1 eksemplar
Zawierzyć poezji 1 eksemplar
Poems and a Memoir 1 eksemplar
ALFABETE 1 eksemplar
Auguri: to Mary Kelleher (2009) 1 eksemplar
Distrito Y Circular (2014) 1 eksemplar
Tree Clock 1 eksemplar
Ploughshares 20: Spring 1980 — Guest Editor — 1 eksemplar
The School Bag 1 eksemplar
Glanmore sonnets 1 eksemplar
Interactions: A Collection (2012) 1 eksemplar
Hundra dikter (2022) 1 eksemplar
Catena umana (2011) 1 eksemplar
Bog Poems (1975) 1 eksemplar
Die Poesie würdigen (2000) 1 eksemplar
W.B. Yeats 1 eksemplar
32 Poems [Printout] 1 eksemplar
New and Selected Poems (2014) 1 eksemplar
Regio en ring gedichten (2009) 1 eksemplar
Seamus Heaney Box Set (2013) 1 eksemplar
El nivel (Spanish Edition) (2008) 1 eksemplar
VIENDO VISIONES 1 eksemplar
Laments (2015) 1 eksemplar
Fältarbete 1 eksemplar
創作の場所 (2001) 1 eksemplar

Associated Works

Beowulf (1000) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver; Oversætter, nogle udgaver; Fortæller, nogle udgaver25,192 eksemplarer
The Making of a Poem: A Norton Anthology of Poetic Forms (2000) — Bidragyder — 1,254 eksemplarer
A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry (1996) — Bidragyder — 829 eksemplarer
The Nation's Favourite Poems (1996) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver622 eksemplarer
World Poetry: An Anthology of Verse from Antiquity to Our Time (1998) — Bidragyder — 447 eksemplarer
The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume A (2005) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver424 eksemplarer
A Way of Life, Like Any Other (1978) — Introduktion — 310 eksemplarer
W. B. Yeats: Poems Selected by Seamus Heaney (2000) — Redaktør, nogle udgaver294 eksemplarer
The Faber Book of Modern Verse (1936) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver284 eksemplarer
The People of the Sea: A Journey in Search of the Seal Legend (1954) — Introduktion, nogle udgaver220 eksemplarer
Teaching with Fire: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Teach (2003) — Bidragyder — 201 eksemplarer
The Art of Losing (2010) — Bidragyder — 197 eksemplarer
The Penguin Book of Irish Verse (1981) — Bidragyder — 193 eksemplarer
British Poetry Since 1945 (1970) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver166 eksemplarer
After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (1994) — Bidragyder — 153 eksemplarer
The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (2010) — Forord, nogle udgaver152 eksemplarer
The Faber Book of Beasts (1997) — Bidragyder — 140 eksemplarer
The Testament of Cresseid & Seven Fables (1500) — Oversætter — 125 eksemplarer
Granta 111: Going Back (2010) — Bidragyder — 113 eksemplarer
Emergency Kit (1996) — Bidragyder, nogle udgaver108 eksemplarer
Leading From Within: Poetry That Sustains the Courage to Lead (2007) — Bidragyder — 100 eksemplarer
Poems to See By: A Comic Artist Interprets Great Poetry (2020) — Bidragyder — 88 eksemplarer
Laments (1981) — Oversætter, nogle udgaver81 eksemplarer
The Everyman Anthology of Poetry for Children (1994) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
Nobel Lectures: From the Literature Laureates, 1986 to 2006 (2006) — Bidragyder — 72 eksemplarer
William Wordsworth: Poems. Selected by Seamus Heaney (1988) — Redaktør — 70 eksemplarer
Gods and Mortals: Modern Poems on Classical Myths (1684) — Bidragyder — 68 eksemplarer
The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink (2012) — Bidragyder — 63 eksemplarer
Birds in the Hand: Fiction and Poetry about Birds (2004) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
Antaeus No. 75/76, Autumn 1994 - The Final Issue (1994) — Bidragyder — 32 eksemplarer
Poets from the North of Ireland (1979) — Bidragyder — 29 eksemplarer
The Canon: The Original One Hundred and Fifty-Four Poems (2004) — Forord — 27 eksemplarer
One World of Literature (1992) — Bidragyder — 24 eksemplarer
James Joyce: A Collection of Critical Essays (1992) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
The Finest Music: Early Irish Lyrics (2014) — Bidragyder — 19 eksemplarer
AQA Anthology (2002) — Forfatter, nogle udgaver19 eksemplarer
Modern Poets: Four (1968) — Forfatter — 17 eksemplarer
Masters of British Literature, Volume B (2007) — Bidragyder — 16 eksemplarer
Oxford Readings in Vergil's Eclogues (2008) — Bidragyder — 9 eksemplarer
The Art of translation : voices from the field (1989) — Bidragyder — 4 eksemplarer
Antaeus: Fiction, Poetry, Documents - Jubilee Edition (1991) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
The New Salmagundi Reader (1996) — Bidragyder — 3 eksemplarer
Archipelago: Number Two - Spring 2008 (2008) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer
Treelines: A collection of poems (2018) 2 eksemplarer
Archipelago, Number One, Summer 2007 (2007) — Bidragyder — 2 eksemplarer

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Kanonisk navn
Heaney, Seamus
Juridisk navn
Heaney, Seamus Justin
Fødselsdato
1939
Dødsdag
2013-08-30
Køn
male
Nationalitet
Noord-Ierland, UK
Fødested
Castledawson, Northern Ireland, UK
Dødssted
Dublin, Ireland
Bopæl
Mossbawn, County Derry, Noord-Ierland, UK
Uddannelse
Queen's University Belfast (BA|1961)
Erhverv
poet
professor
Relationer
Heaney, Marie (spouse)
Organisationer
Queen's University Belfast
Harvard University
Oxford University
Priser og hædersbevisninger
Nobelprijs voor Literatuur (1995)
Agent
Steven Barclay Agency
Kort biografi
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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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
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Zedseayou | 8 andre anmeldelser | 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.… (mere)
 
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thesmellofbooks | 1 anden anmeldelse | 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.
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Caroline_McElwee | Nov 30, 2023 |
I prefer the original but this was well done.
 
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VictorHalfwit | 2 andre anmeldelser | Oct 19, 2023 |

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