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Seamus Heaney. A Brief Introduction

Seamus Heaney was the son of a farmer whobrought up by uncles. Yet, although he
worked 50 hectares of land and kept cattle.travelled a long way from home, rural County
His mother was an Ulsterwoman who neverDerry remained for him the country of the
stopped talking while his father rarelymind.He graduated from Queen's University,
spoke. So, early in life, Seamus HeaneyBelfast, in 1961 then trained to become a
found himself stood between speech andteacher. While teaching in a secondary
silence. Soon he learned of other divisionsschool he married Marie Devlin and they
in Ireland and the world, and that greatersubsequently had three children. His first
world landed on the doorstep in 1943 whenbook entitled Eleven Poems appeared in 1966
Americans built an airfield by the Heaneys'and the following year he took up a
farm. It was a staging post for the invasionlectureship at Queen's Belfast which he held
of Normandy. In 'Making Strange' Heaneyuntil 1972 - by which time the Troubles had
recalled this glimpse of otherness as akin tostarted in Northern Ireland and Heaney moved
a field of alien corn and himself as pig into Dublin.The recipient of many literary
the middle caught between two selves.I stoodawards, Seamus Heaney has held the post of
between  themBoylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory at
Harvard and was appointed Professor of Poetry
the  one  with  his  travelled  intelligenceat Oxford 1989-1994. He received the Nobel
Prize for Literature in 1995. On the death
and  tawny  containment,of Ted Hughes in 1998 he was offered the
Laureateship which he declined. In 1999 he
his speech like the twang of a bowstringandrendered the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf into
another,  unshorn  and  bewilderedmodern English in a parallel text
edition.Stephen Colbourn has published many
in  the  tubs  of  his  wellingtons,articles about literature on
Literature-study-online at He is a freelance
smiling  at  me  for  help,writer. He has written widely on English
Language Teaching and has published articles
faced with this stranger I'd brought him.Theon literature, linguistics, and computers in
first time away from home came at the age ofvarious journals together with many Readers
twelve when Seamus won a scholarship to afor Heinemann and Macmillan Education. He
Catholic boarding school in Derry. Here hehas contributed articles on literature to The
learnt Latin and Irish, and went on to studyEssentials of Literature in English
Anglo-Saxon at university along with Englishpost-1914, published by Hodder Arnold in
Literature. His parents died when he was in2005.
his teens, leaving nine children to be



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