Seamus Heaney
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Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist, his first major published volume
Heaney in 1982
Seamus Heaney in 1970
Marie and Seamus Heaney at the Dominican Church, Kraków, Poland, 4 October 1996
The Seamus Heaney Centre for Poetry, which was officially opened at Queen's University Belfast in 2004
W. B. Yeats
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William Butler Yeats was an Irish poet, dramatist, writer and literary critic who was one of the foremost figures of 20th-century literature. He was a driving force behind the Irish Literary Revival a
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…is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with…
Yeats in 1911
1900 portrait by Yeats's father, John Butler Yeats
Yeats in 1903
Maud Gonne (c. 1900)