Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature, acclaimed as a principal contributor to poetry and one of the greatest poets of his generation.
Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He is recognized for his significant contributions to poetry and is considered one of the greatest poets of his time.
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Back | Seamus Justin Heaney MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Heaney was recognised as one of the principal contributors to poetry during his lifetime. 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".[3][4] Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller."[5] Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".[ |
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