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Heaney
[ hey-nee ]
noun
- Sea·mus [shey, -m, uh, s], 1939–2013, Irish poet: Nobel Prize 1995.
Heaney
/ ˈhiːnɪ /
noun
- HeaneySeamus (Justin)1939MIrishWRITING: poetWRITING: critic Seamus ( Justin ) (ˈʃeɪməs). Born 1939, Irish poet and critic, born in Northern Ireland. His collections include Death of a Naturalist (1966), North (1975), The Haw Lantern (1987), The Spirit Level (1996), District and Circle (2006), and Human Chain (2010). Nobel prize for literature 1995
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Seamus Heaney, among many other things, embodied that central principle: his comic sense was gleefully sharp, but it was not mean.
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Mischievous, more bite than bark in the sense that it was mordant with minimal rhetoric, Heaney was not genteel.
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And I have never known anyone with a finer sense of occasion than Seamus Heaney.
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A month ago, the Nobel Prize–winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney died at age 74.
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One might watch and wait for years “balanced between destiny and dread,” Heaney wrote.
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Major Heaney went by special train from Kimberley, and Mr. Holden on horseback across country.
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