seamus heaney

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an Irish poet. His collections of poems include Death of a Naturalist, The Haw Lantern and Seeing Things. In 1995, he won the Nobel Prize for Literature (1939- ). born April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, N.Ire. Irish poet. After studying at Queen's University in Belfast, he became a teacher and lecturer. Appalled by the violence in his native Northern Ireland, he moved to the Republic of Ireland in 1972. In recent years he has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. His works, rooted in Northern Irish rural life, evoke historical events and draw on Irish myth, but they also reflect the land's recent troubled decades. His collections include Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), North (1975), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996). Preoccupations (1980) consists of essays on poetry and poets. He also made a noteworthy translation of Beowulf. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995

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Seamus Justin Heaney
born April 13, 1939, near Castledàwson, County Londonderry, N.Ire. Irish poet. After studying at Queen's University in Belfast, he became a teacher and lecturer. Appalled by the violence in his native Northern Ireland, he moved to the Republic of Ireland in 1972. In recent years he has taught at Harvard, Oxford, and Cambridge. His works, rooted in Northern Irish rural life, evoke historical events and draw on Irish myth, but they also reflect the land's recent troubled decades. His collections include Death of a Naturalist (1966), Door into the Dark (1969), North (1975), Station Island (1984), The Haw Lantern (1987), Seeing Things (1991), and The Spirit Level (1996). Preoccupations (1980) consists of essays on poetry and poets. He also made a noteworthy translation of Beowulf. He received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995
Turkish - Turkish
irlanda tarihine ve mitolojisine göndermeler yapan şiirleriyle tanınan 1995 Nobel ödülünü kazanan irlandalı şair
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