BIOGRAPHY:
Irish poet and literary critic, awarded the Nobel Prize. He was born in County Derry, Northern Ireland, and educated at Queen's College Belfast, where he taught from 1966 to 1972 before devoting himself entirely to literature. Heaney, Irish Catholic, was greatly affected by the violence of 'unrest' in Ulster, and decided to move to Dublin in 1972, where he taught since 1975. Obtained a professorship at Harvard in 1984 and between 1989 and 1994 he was professor poetry at the University of Oxford. Heaney's poetry, from its beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966), is anchored in the physical and rural settings of his childhood. As his work develops, these scenarios become the focus of an archaeological search of myths and stories that have helped shape the violent political situation in Northern Ireland, which has only discussed openly in North (1975). Heaney's work shows great rhythmic flexibility, but it is mainly the intensity of his language that has become famous. The articulation of his poetry in sharp contrast to the brevity and austerity of the people from which and to which so lovingly described, the tension is also very important in his work. Other books by him are: Door to Darkness (1969), Escaping the Winter (1972), Field Work (1979), Isola stazione (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), which contains a sonnet-sequence of elegies to death of his mother, and Seeing Things (1991), elegies to his father. He has also written several critical essays: Concerns (1980) and Government of the language (1988). He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.
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BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Death of a Naturalist (1966)
Door to Darkness (1969)
Fleeing winter (1972)
North ( 1975)
Stations (1975)
Fieldwork (1979)
Concerns (1980)
stazione Isola (1984)
The Haw Lantern (1987)
Government of language (1988)
things Viewing (1991)
The level of spirit (1995)
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