Irish Poet Seamus Heaney has died
Irish Poet Seamus Heaney has died
Seamus Heaney, the best Irish poet since Yeats, has died aged 74. Heaney was born near Toomebridge, Northern Ireland. He was a teacher and had a distinguished career in poetry, winning the Nobel prize for literature in 1995.
Heaney had been awarded numerous prizes and received many honours for his work. He recently suffered from ill health.
Poetry
1966: Death of a Naturalist, Faber & Faber
1969: Door into the Dark, Faber & Faber
1972: Wintering Out, Faber & Faber
1975: Stations, Ulsterman
1975: North, Faber & Faber
1979: Field Work, Faber & Faber
1984: Station Island, Faber & Faber
1987: The Haw Lantern, Faber & Faber
1991: Seeing Things, Faber & Faber
1996: The Spirit Level, Faber & Faber
2001: Electric Light, Faber & Faber
2006: District and Circle, Faber & Faber
2010: Human Chain, Faber & Faber
In Memoriam Seamus Heaney 1939-2013
30 august 2013
fleursdumal.nl magazine
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