Important notes on Post Modern Poet Seamus Heaney for NET, SET ,JRF, WBPSC Assistant Master and Mistress and literature students.

 Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) 

☆ Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright, and translator.

☆ He is considered one of the greatest poets of the 20th century.

☆ He won nobel prize in 1995.

☆ He was the writer of the modern version of "Beowulf".

☆ Heaney joined the circle of Ulster (Belfast) poets in 1960s, which included Philip Hobbsbaum, Derek Mahon, Paul Muldoon, James Simmons, Frank Ormsby and Michael Foley known as 'The Group'.

Important Works:- 

1) Death of a Naturalist (1966) : First major collection; drawn from childhood experiences and environments.

2) Door into the Dark (1969): The title 'Door into the Dark', points to Heaney's belief that poems emerge from what he called ' the buried life of the feelings'.

3) Wintering out(1972) 

4) North(1975) 

5) Field Work ( 1979) 

6) Sweeney Astray (1983) 

7) Station Island (1984)

8) The Haw Lantern (1987) 

9)  Seeing Things (1991) 

10) The Spirit Level (1996)