Heaney, Seamus Justin
Heaney, Seamus Justin ( 1939 – ),Irish poet, educated at St Columb's College, Derry, and Queen's University, Belfast. In the 1960s he belonged to a group of poets in Belfast, who, he said, ‘used to talk poetry day after day with an intensity and prejudice that cannot but have left a mark on all of us’. After lecturing on poetry at Queen's for six years he moved in 1972 to the Republic of Ireland, living first in Co. Wicklow and then in Dublin. His early poetry is rooted in the farmland of his youth, and communicates a strong physical sense of environment with subtlety and economy of words, as in Eleven Poems ( 1965 ), Death of a Naturalist ( 1966 ), and Door into the Dark ( 1969 ). His later work, densely written and often poignant, as in Wintering Out ( 1972 ), North ( 1975 ), and Field Work ( 1979 ), broods on the cultural and historical implications of words and explores...
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