Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney's first poetry collection, Death of a Naturalist, appeared forty years ago. Since then he has published poetry, criticism, and translations that have established him as one of the leading poets of his generation. In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature.

From the Review

October 7, 2004: What Passed at Colonus (poem)

September 25, 2003: Helmet (poem)

April 25, 2002: On Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002)

November 4, 1999: A New 'Beowulf'

April 24, 1997: Standing with Soyinka (letter)

December 17, 1987: In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald (poem)

October 25, 1984: Making It New

Children in Exile: Poems 1968–1984 by James Fenton

September 27, 1979: The Toome Road (poem)

February 9, 1978: On Robert Lowell

May 15, 1975: The Poet Crowned (poem)

From New York Review Books

There You Are In these essays and reviews, Flanagan reflects on past and present Irish history, on writers such as Yeats, O'Neill, Brian Moore, and O'Hara, as well as on Fitzgerald, Joyce, Mary McCarthy, Eugene O'Neill, Darcy O'Brien, Hemingway, and the films of John Ford.

A Way of Life, Like Any Other A classic coming-of-age story—a novel that combines keen insight and devastating wit to hilarious and heartbreaking effect.

Books by Seamus Heaney

Alphaveta (2000)
Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-1996 (1998)
Opened Ground: Poems, 1966-1996 (1998)
The Spirit Level (audio) (1997)
Ukkosvaloa (1997)
Zawierzyc Poezji (1996)
La Lanterne De L'aubepine (1996)
North (1996)
Ta Poiemata Tou Valtou (1996)
Crediting Poetry: The Nobel Lecture (1996)
Die Poesie Wurdigen: (nobelpreis-Rede 1995) Und Ein Gesprach Mit Dem Iteratur-Nobelpreistrager (1996)
The Spirit Level (1996)
The Spirit Level (1996)
Poemas Causits (1996)
La Linterna Del Espino (1995)
Crediting Poetry (1995)
Penninn Hvassi (1995)
Attraversamenti (1995)
The Redress of Poetry (1995)
Ojanpiennarten Kuningas (1995)
Joy Or Night: Last Things in the Poetry of W. B. Yeats and Philip Larkin: W. D. Thomas Memorial Lecture Delivered at the College on 18 January 993 (1993)
Wintering Out (1993)
Seeing Things (1993)
The Midnight Verdict (1993)
Sweeney's Flight: Based on the Revised Text of "Sweeney Astray": With the Complete Revised Text of "Sweeney Astray" (1992)
North (1992)
Sweeney's Flight: Based on the Revised Text of "Sweeney Astray": With the Complete Revised Text of "Sweeney Astray" (1992)
Seeing Things (1991)
New Selected Poems 1966-1987 (1990)
The Redress of Poetry: An Inaugural Lecture Delivered Before the Niversity of Oxford on 24 October 1989 (1990)
Selected Poems, 1966-1987 (1990)
The Government of the Tongue: Selected Prose, 1978-1987 (1989)
The Place of Writing (1989)
The Government of the Tongue: The 1986 T.S. Eliot Memorial Lectures and Other Critical Writings (1988)
The Haw Lantern (1987)
The Haw Lantern (1987)
Place and Displacement: Recent Poetry of Northern Ireland (1985)
Station Island (1985)
Hailstones (1984)
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish (1984)
Station Island (1984)
An Open Letter (1983)
Sweeney Astray: A Version from the Irish (1983)
Poems, 1965-1975 (1980)
Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (1980)
Selected Poems, 1965-1975 (1980)
Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 (1980)
Field Work (1979)
Field Work: [poems] (1979)
North: [poems] (1977)
North (1976)
The Fire I' the Flint: Reflections on the Poetry of Gerard Manley Hopkins (1975)
North (1975)
Stations (1975)
Door Into the Dark (1972)
Wintering Out (1972)
Death of a Naturalist (1969)
Door Into the Dark (1969)