Heaney

American  

[hey-nee] / ˈheɪ ni /

noun

1. Seamus 1939–2013, Irish poet: Nobel Prize 1995.

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Heaney British  

/ ˈhiːnɪ /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness.

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“The Poems of Seamus Heaney” definitively reveals the breadth and depth of Heaney’s accomplishment.

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Heaney was born with a subject he often resisted, and “Digging” turns away from violence to the civilizing necessity of work.

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An intimate historical consciousness animates the poem, as it does nearly everything Heaney wrote.

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“The Poems of Seamus Heaney” gives us his 12 major books as they were published, interspersed with uncollected work and poems from minor collections—nearly 700 pages of closely printed poetry in a learned but humane voice that rarely flags.

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