Seamus Heaney (API: ) of Northern Ireland born the April 13rd 1939 is a poet. It is one of the anglophone poets most known of the twentieth century. It received the Nobel Prize of literature in 1995.
Biography
Seamus Heaney is the elder one of a family of nine children. His/her father was owner of a small farm in the Comté of Londonderry (or Derry) in Northern Ireland and was interested especially in the breeding and the sale of the cattle. His/her mother was originating in a family related to the traditional rural life than that of her husband: members of its family worked with the local textile factory. The poet thus could point out that its ascending represents two faces of Ireland: that of the past gaelic turned towards the cattle breeding and that of the Ulster of the Industrial revolution. It saw there one of the fundamental tensions which worked it; another, also inherited his/her parents, being the tension enters the word of a mother binding easily and the silence of a silent father.Heaney was only five years old when he saw American soldiers in operations, confined at the close aerodrome and ready to embark for the Normandy. The poet remembers it like image his own conscience, in balance between " history and ignorance".
Seamus Heaney makes its primary studies at the school of Anahorish. It obtains a purse to study with the college of St Columb' S (Holy Colomban) to Derry, where it learns the Irish.
In 1957 it leaves for Belfast where it studies the English language and the literature with Queen' S university. During a teacher-training course it meets the writer Michael MacLaverty, who makes known to him the poetry of Patrick Kavanagh. It is at that time, as from 1962, that Heaney starts to publish poems. In 1963 Philip Hobsbaum, professor with Queen' S university, form a group of young local poets, as it previously did with London, which is worth in Heaney to meet other poets of Belfast like Derek Mahon and Michael Longley.
Heaney in August 1965 marries Marie Devlin, teaching who itself published a collection of tales and legends of Ireland. In 1966, the editor Faber and Faber publishes the first volume of poems of Heaney, Death off has Naturalist ( Mort of a naturalist ). This collection, very received, is worth in Heaney of many rewards. The same year it is named university lecturer ( lecturer ) with Queen' S university, where it will remain until 1972. The life of Heaney is divided consequently between teaching and writing.
In 1972 Heaney leaves Belfast to teach with Dublin where it directs English the department of the Training College (training of teachers) of Carysfort and also works as independent journalist for Irish television. In the Seventies it reads out its work in Ireland, Great Britain and with the the United States. He is elected Saoi (“Wise”) of Aosdána, organization Irish of promotion of arts. In 1981 Heaney leaves Dublin for the Université of Harvard where, in 1984, he is elected with the Boylston pulpit of rhetoric and eloquence.
In 1983 he is cofounder, with Brian Friel and Stephen Rea, of the theatrical company Field Day.
In 1989, it occupies the pulpit of poetry to the Université of Oxford, station which it will preserve until 1994. Its public readings always meet same success.
In 1990 Heaney publishes The Cure At Troy , a part based on the legend of Troy which is acclaimed by criticism. Heaney receives the Nobel Prize of Literature in 1995 for what the committee describes like “a lyric work of beauty and ethical depth, which exalte miracles of the daily newspaper and alive past”. The Spirit Level , published in 1997, obtains the price Whitbread Book off the Year , performance reiterated with the publication of Beowulf: In New Translation in 1999.
In 2006 Heaney a new collection of poems publishes, District and Circle .
Work
Poems
- Death off has Naturalist , 1966 - Mort of a naturalist
- Door into the Dark , 1969 - Porte towards the black
- Wintering Out , 1972 - Endurer the winter
- North , 1975 - Northern
- Field Work , 1979 - Fouille
- Selected Poems 1965-1975, 1980
- Sweeney Astray. With Version from the Irish , 1983 (inspired of an Irish medieval poem) - Wanderings of Sweeney
- Station Island , 1984 - Island of pilgrimage
- The Haw Lantern , 1987 - ( the Lantern of the hawthorn , the Time of the Cherries 1996)
- New Selected Poems , 1966-1987, 1990
- Seeing Things , 1991
- Sweeney' S Flight , 1992
- The Spirit Level , 1996 ( the strange one and the known one: poems , transl. Harrowing Patrick, Gallimard coll Of the whole world 2005)
- Electric Light , 2001
- District and Circle , 2006
Translations
- Laments of Jan Kochanowski, 1995, in collaboration with Stanislaw Baranczak
- Beowulf , 1999, translated old English
Tests
- Concerns. Selected Prose 1968-1978 , 1980
- The Government off the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Readings and Other Critical Writings , 1988
- The Places off Writing , 1989
- The Redress off Poetry: Oxford Readings , 1995
Others
- The Rattle Bag , 1982 anthology of poetry for children in collaboration with Ted Hughes
- The Cleans At Troy: With Version off Sophocles' Philoctetes , 1990
- The Midnight Verdict , 1993, verse translation of Cúirt year Mheán-Oíche de Brian Merrimanla
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