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Biography of Seamus (Justin) Heaney
13,176 words, approx. 44 pages
 [This entry was updated by Robert Buttel from his entry in the Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography, volume 8, pp. 142-165.] From the beginning critical as well as popular acclaim has greeted each volume of Seamus Heaney's poetry. Who would...
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Biography of Seamus Justin Heaney
12,154 words, approx. 41 pages
 From the beginning critical as well as popular acclaim has greeted each volume of Seamus Heaney's poetry. Who would have predicted in 1966, when his first full-length book appeared, the impact such poetry would have? It is, after all, a poetry...
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Biography of Seamus Justin Heaney
6,266 words, approx. 21 pages
 The poetry of Seamus Justin Heaney (born 1939) reveals his skill with language and his command of form and technique. In his poems, Heaney balances personal, topical, and universal themes. He approaches his themes from a modest perspective, creating...



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Seamus Heaney Quotes
314 words, approx. 1 pages
 Seamus Justin Heaney (born 1939-04-13 ) is a Nobel Prize-winning poet of Northern Irish birth and upbringing, who now lives in the Republic of Ireland. His books are said to account for two-thirds of the sales of living poets in Britain. Sourced I...


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Seamus Heaney Information
2,662 words, approx. 9 pages
 Seamus Justin Heaney (IPA: /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/) (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in...




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Alice Walker placing lit papers at Emory
12/18/2007: 360 words, approx. 1 pages Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library.The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," "By the Light of My Father's Smile" and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with...
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Farrar, Straus and Giroux Leaving Union Square
7/17/2007: 448 words, approx. 2 pages For more than 40 years, the publisher Farrar, Straus and Giroux has been the tweedy, stubborn holdout on Union Square. Even if everything around it is changing (the Amalgamated Bank building turning condo, the new glass tower going up at the corner of 14th and...
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City's Literary Set Revives a Giant
4/17/2005: 816 words, approx. 3 pages In the mid-1980's, someone asked the late Thomas Flanagan if he'd he read Erica Jong's last novel. "I definitely hope so," he replied.He was a man of lightning wit and great learning. His first novel, The Year of the French (1979), won a National Book...
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Tears at the Old Town
2/25/2007: 886 words, approx. 3 pages When Larry Meagher was a boy growing up in Depression-era Greenpoint, the copper steeple of St. Cecilia’s church would have been prominent on the low-slung skyline. These days, it sits in the shadow of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. But on the morning of Tuesday, Feb. 20,...




Literary Criticism
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Critical Essay by Henry Hart
8,232 words, approx. 27 pages
 In the following essay, Hart determines the influence of Robert Lowell on the poems of Field Work, and praises Heaney's willingness to take risks in this volume.
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Critical Essay by John Boly
7,138 words, approx. 24 pages
 In the following essay, Boly applies speech act theory to construct multiple modes of meaning and layers of reality for the main persona in Heaney's poem “Follower.”
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Interview by Seamus Heaney with Randy Brandes
6,265 words, approx. 21 pages
 In the following interview, Heaney discusses his poetry, especially the poems in The Haw Lantern, as well as American poets that have influenced his work.
Featured Essays
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Seamus Heaney 's "The Early Purges" and "Mid Term Break"?
3,068 words, approx. 10 pages
 Seamus Heaney is one of the greatest poets in recent years and often writes about his childhood. I believe this is because he is trying to understand his own childhood and how his early experiences affected him. This is evidenced in The Early Purges and Mid Term Break.
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Seamus Heaney - Punishment & the Mud Vision
1,847 words, approx. 6 pages
 Contends that poetry has always been seen as reflecting and commenting on the society in which it is written. Discusses the extent to which Seamus Heaney uses his poetry to search into his society to examine his conscious regarding his moral behavior.


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