Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground , Electric Light , Beowulf , The Spirit Level , District and Circle , and Finders Keepers . Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats."

Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) received the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. His poems, plays, translations, and essays include Opened Ground , Electric Light , Beowulf , The Spirit Level , District and Circle , and Finders Keepers . Robert Lowell praised Heaney as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." See less