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Seamus Heaney Links
“Tied by birth to unionism, memorialist of the executed Nationalist rebels of 1916, W. B. Yeats mirrored Ireland 's divisions in his self-divisions – yet saw the island as a single cultural entity sprung from common roots in common myths.”
Seamus Heaney
All Ireland's Bard by Seamus Heaney
November 1997 article from the Atlantic Monthly discussing Yeats. Requires subscription.
Audio Interviews - Seamus Heaney
BBC interview of Seamus Heaney in November 1998 in which he discusses his formative years, doing English at University, the influence of Irish writing, the impact of the troubles on his writing, the bog bodies poems and naming a collection of poems.
Between The Lines Interview With Seamus Heaney
Interview of Seamus Heaney by Between The Lines. Between The Lines specializes in publishing in-depth interviews with senior contemporary poets. The interviews are accompanied by career sketches, uncollected poems, full-scale bibliographies (giving details of both primary and secondary literature), and several pages of quotations from critics and reviewers. The interviews constitute what the critic Neil Corcoran has called "essential reading for admirers of these poets ... vigorous, illuminating and sometimes surprising adjuncts to the work itself."
Harvard University Press/Seamus Heaney
Web site for Helen Vendler’s Seamus Heaney. The book focuses on Heaney's poetry as art. The site states that Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times.
Irish Writers Online -- Heaney
Brief biographies of Irish writers with information on their own works.
Nobel E-Museum – Seamus Heaney
Information on Seamus Heaney’s 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Includes his Nobel Lecture, Banquet Speech, biography, links and other information.
Poets Portal
This site presents biographies, photographs, selected poems, commentaries, reviews and links on Seamus Heaney. The site also has an audio introduction to Seamus Heaney’s poetry by Huck Gutman, Professor of English at the
University of
Vermont.
Seamus Heaney Biography -- Princess Grace Irish Library
Biography contained in the Princess Grace Irish Library (
Monaco ) Electronic Irish Records Dataset. Requires Password. This site is under construction and requires a pass word for this author.
The Seamus Heaney Page
This site attempts to collect information on the social, political, historical and literary context of Seamus Heaney’s writings. The site includes articles from the Boston Globe, writings on the Bog Bodies that influenced his poetry by that name, and sites on geography, history and politics. This site also has a bibliography and links to electronic writings.
The Seamus Heaney Portal
Extensive site, including online copies of his poetry, recordings of the author reading his poetry, some of his lectures and numerous links. |
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