Poet seamus heaney biography

Irish writer, poet and translator (–)

Seamus Justin HeaneyMRIA (13 April &#;– 30 August ) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (), his first major published volume.

Poet seamus heaney biography

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 , The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".^[6]

Heaney was born in the townland of Tamniaran between Castledawson and Toomebridge, Northern Ireland.

His family moved to nearby Bellaghy when he was a boy. He became a lecturer at St. Joseph's College in Belfast in the early s, after attendi