| Seamus Heaney was the son of a farmer who
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| | of the mind.He graduated from Queen's
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| worked 50 hectares of land and kept
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| | University, Belfast, in 1961 then trained
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| cattle. His mother was an Ulsterwoman
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| | to become a teacher. While teaching in a
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| who never stopped talking while his
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| | secondary school he married Marie Devlin
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| father rarely spoke. So, early in life,
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| | and they subsequently had three children.
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| Seamus Heaney found himself stood between
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| | His first book entitled Eleven Poems
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| speech and silence. Soon he learned of
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| | appeared in 1966 and the following year
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| other divisions in Ireland and the world,
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| | he took up a lectureship at Queen's
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| and that greater world landed on the
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| | Belfast which he held until 1972 - by
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| doorstep in 1943 when Americans built an
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| | which time the Troubles had started in
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| airfield by the Heaneys' farm. It was a
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| | Northern Ireland and Heaney moved to
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| staging post for the invasion of
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| | Dublin.The recipient of many literary
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| Normandy. In 'Making Strange' Heaney
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| | awards, Seamus Heaney has held the post
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| recalled this glimpse of otherness as
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| | of Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and
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| akin to a field of alien corn and himself
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| | Oratory at Harvard and was appointed
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| as pig in the middle caught between two
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| | Professor of Poetry at Oxford 1989-1994.
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| selves.I stood between them
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| | He received the Nobel Prize for
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| the one with his travelled intelligence
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| | Literature in 1995. On the death of Ted
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| and tawny containment,
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| | Hughes in 1998 he was offered the
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| his speech like the twang of a
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| | Laureateship which he declined. In 1999
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| bowstringand another, unshorn and
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| | he rendered the Anglo-Saxon poem Beowulf
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| bewildered
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| | into modern English in a parallel text
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| in the tubs of his wellingtons,
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| | edition.Stephen Colbourn has published
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| smiling at me for help,
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| | many articles about literature on
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| faced with this stranger I'd brought
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| | Literature-study-online at He is a
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| him.The first time away from home came at
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| | freelance writer. He has written widely
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| the age of twelve when Seamus won a
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| | on English Language Teaching and has
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| scholarship to a Catholic boarding school
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| | published articles on literature,
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| in Derry. Here he learnt Latin and
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| | linguistics, and computers in various
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| Irish, and went on to study Anglo-Saxon
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| | journals together with many Readers for
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| at university along with English
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| | Heinemann and Macmillan Education. He
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| Literature. His parents died when he was
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| | has contributed articles on literature to
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| in his teens, leaving nine children to be
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| | The Essentials of Literature in English
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| brought up by uncles. Yet, although he
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| | post-1914, published by Hodder Arnold in
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| travelled a long way from home, rural
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| | 2005.
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| County Derry remained for him the country
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