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Seamus Heaney had the idea to form a personal selection from across the entire arc of his poetry, small yet comprehensive enough to serve as an introduction for all comers. He never managed to do this in his lifetime, and no edition exists which has such a broad range, drawing from first collection to last. But now, at last, the project has been returned to, resulting in an intimate gathering of poems chosen and introduced by the Heaney family. Coinciding with the National Library of Ireland launching a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Seamus Heaney, 100 Poems is a singular, accessible collection for new and younger readers that has the opportunity to reach far and wide, now and for years to come.

Издательство: "Faber and Faber" (2018)

ISBN: 978-0-571-34715-5

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Heaney, Seamus

▪ Irish poet
in full  Seamus Justin Heaney  
born April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, N.Ire.

      Irish poet whose work is notable for its evocation of Irish rural life and events in Irish history as well as for its allusions to Irish myth. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

      After graduating from Queen's University, Belfast (B.A., 1961), Heaney taught secondary school for a year and then lectured in colleges and universities in Belfast and Dublin. He became a member of the Field Day Theatre Company in 1980, soon after its founding by playwright Brian Friel (Friel, Brian) and actor Stephen Rea. In 1982 he joined the faculty of Harvard University as visiting professor and, in 1985, became full professor—a post he retained while teaching at the University of Oxford (1989–94).

      Heaney's first poetry collection was the prizewinning Death of a Naturalist (1966). In this book and Door into the Dark (1969), he wrote in a traditional style about a passing way of life—that of domestic rural life in Northern Ireland. In Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he began to encompass such subjects as the violence in Northern Ireland and contemporary Irish experience, though he continued to view his subjects through a mythic and mystical filter. Among the later volumes that reflect Heaney's honed and deceptively simple style are Field Work (1979), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), and Seeing Things (1991). The Spirit Level (1996) concerns the notion of centredness and balance in both the natural and the spiritual senses. His Opened Ground: Selected Poems, 1966–1996 was published in 1998. In Electric Light (2001) and District and Circle (2006), he returned to the Ireland of his youth.

      Heaney wrote essays on poetry and on poets such as William Wordsworth, Gerard Manley Hopkins, and Elizabeth Bishop. Some of these essays have appeared in Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968–1978 (1980) and Finders Keepers: Selected Prose, 1971–2001 (2002). A collection of his lectures at Oxford was published as The Redress of Poetry (1995).

      Heaney also produced translations, including The Cure at Troy (1991), which is Heaney's version of Sophocles' Philoctetes, and The Midnight Verdict (1993), which contains selections from Ovid's Metamorphoses and from Cúirt an mheán oíche (The Midnight Court), a work by the 18th-century Irish writer Brian Merriman. Heaney's translation of the Old English epic poem Beowulf (1999) became an unexpected international best seller, while his The Burial at Thebes (2004) gave Sophocles' Antigone contemporary relevance.

Additional Reading
Studies of Heaney's life and work are Michael Parker, Seamus Heaney (1993), on his earlier career; and Thomas C. Foster, Seamus Heaney (1989). Analyses of his writings include Henry Hart, Seamus Heaney: Poet of Contrary Progressions (1992); Elmer Andrews (ed.), Seamus Heaney (1992); Tony Curtis (ed.), The Art of Seamus Heaney, 3rd rev. ed. (1994); Michael R. Molino, Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (1994); and Helen Vendler, Seamus Heaney (1998).

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