Heaney, Seamus (Justin)

Heaney, Seamus (Justin)
born April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, N.Ire.

Irish poet.

After studying at Queen's University in Belfast, he became a teacher and lecturer. Appalled by the violence in his native Northern Ireland, he moved to the Republic of Ireland in 1972. In recent years he has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. His works, rooted in Northern Irish rural life, evoke historical events and draw on Irish myth, but they also reflect the land's recent troubled decades. His collections include Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), North (1975), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996). Preoccupations (1980) consists of essays on poetry and poets. He also made a noteworthy translation of Beowulf. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

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  • Heaney,Seamus Justin — Hea·ney (hēʹnē), Seamus Justin. Born 1939. Irish poet whose work is typified by dense, earthy imagery and concern for the political crises of his homeland. His books include Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Field Work (1979). He won the 1995… …   Universalium

  • Heaney, Seamus Justin — (1939 )    The eldest in a Catholic family of nine children, he grew up on his father s cattle farm near Castledawson, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. He attended St. Columb s College, Derry, and moved in 1957 to Belfast to continue his studies.… …   British and Irish poets

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  • Heaney, Seamus — ▪ Irish poet in full  Seamus Justin Heaney   born April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, N.Ire.       Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions… …   Universalium

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  • Justin — /jus tin/; Fr. /zhyuus taonn /; Ger. /yoos teen /, n. a male given name: from a Latin word meaning just. * * * (as used in expressions) Combes Justin Louis Émile Heaney Seamus Justin Justin II Justin Martyr Saint Winsor Justin * * * ▪ Roman… …   Universalium

  • Justin — (as used in expressions) Combes, (Justin Louis) Émile Heaney, Seamus (Justin) Winsor, Justin …   Enciclopedia Universal

  • Seamus Heaney — Seamus Justin Heaney (* 13. April 1939 nahe Castledawson, County Londonderry, Nordirland) ist ein irischer Schriftsteller, der 1995 mit dem Nobelpreis für Literatur ausgezeichnet wurde. Marie und Seamus Heaney (1996) Inhaltsverzeichnis …   Deutsch Wikipedia

  • Heaney —   [ hiːni], Seamus Justin, irischer Lyriker, * Castledawson (County Derry) 13. 4. 1939; studierte englische Sprache und Literatur an der Queen s University in Belfast; übersiedelte nach dem Ausbruch des Bürgerkrieges 1972 in die Republik Irland;… …   Universal-Lexikon

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