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.
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What Passed at Colonus
October 7, 2004
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Helmet
September 25, 2003
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On Thomas Flanagan (1923–2002)
April 25, 2002
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A New ‘Beowulf’
November 4, 1999
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Standing with Soyinka
April 24, 1997
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In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald
December 17, 1987
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Making It New
October 25, 1984
Children in Exile: Poems 19681984
by James Fenton
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The Toome Road
September 27, 1979
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On Robert Lowell
February 9, 1978
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The Poet Crowned
May 15, 1975