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Born in April 1, 1939 / Ireland / English

Furtherreading

Other info : Bibliography

 

FURTHER READINGS ABOUT THE AUTHOR: BOOKS
  • Allen, Michael, editor. Seamus Heaney, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 1997.
  • Andrews, Elmer, editor, The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: Essays, Articles, Reviews, Columbia University Press (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Beckett, Sandra L., editor, Transcending Boundaries: Writing for a Dual Audience of Children and Adults, Garland (New York, NY), 1999.
  • Bemporad, J., Seamus Heaney: Life and Works, Books Inc. (London, England) 1999.
  • Booth, James, editor, New Larkins for the Old: Critical Essays, St. Martin's Press (New York, NY), 2000.
  • Brown, Terence, Northern Voices: Poets from Ulster, Rowman & Littlefield (Totowa, NJ), 1975.
  • Burris, Sydney, The Poetry of Resistance, Ohio University Press (Athens, OH), 1990.
  • Buttel, Robert, Seamus Heaney, Bucknell University Press (Cranbury, NJ), 1975.
  • Concise Dictionary of British Literary Biography: Contemporary Writers, 1960 to the Present, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1992.
  • Contemporary Literary Criticism, Gale (Detroit, MI), Volume 5, 1976, Volume 7, 1977, Volume 14, 1980, Volume 25, 1983, Volume 37, 1986, Volume 74, 1993, Volume 91, 1996.
  • Corcoran, Neil,The Poetry of Seamus Heaney: A Critical Study, Faber (London, England), 1998.
  • Curtis, Tony, editor, The Art of Seamus Heaney, Wolfhound Press (Dublin, Ireland), 1994.
  • Deane, Seamus, Strange Country: Modernity and Nationhood in Irish Writing since 1790, Clarendon Press (Oxford, England), 1997.
  • Dictionary of Literary Biography, Volume 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland since 1960, Gale (Detroit, MI), 1985.
  • Duffy, Edna, The Subaltern Ulysses, University of Minnesota Press, 1994.
  • Durkan, Michael J., Seamus Heaney: A Reference Guide, G. K. Hall (New York, NY), 1996.
  • Fenton, James, The Strength of Poetry?, Oxford University Press (New York, NY), 2001.
  • Garratt, Robert F., Critical Essays on Seamus Heaney, G. K. Hall (New York, NY), 1995.
  • Goodby, John, Irish Poetry since 1950: From Stillness into History, University Press (Manchester, England), 2000.
  • Harmon, Maurice, editor, Image and Illusion: Anglo-Irish Literature and Its Contexts, Wolfhound Press, 1979.
  • Hensen, Michael, and Annette Pankratz, editors, The Aesthetics and Pragmatics of Violence, Stutz (Passau, Germany), 2001.
  • Kerridge, Richard, and Neil Samuels, editors, Writing the Environment: Ecocriticism and Literature, Zed (London, England), 1998.
  • Kiberd, Declan, Inventing Ireland: The Literature of the Modern Nation, J. Cape (London, England), 1995.
  • Kirkland, Richard, Literature and Culture in Northern Ireland since 1965: Moments of Danger, Longman (London, England), 1996.
  • Kirkpatrick, Kathryn. Border Crossings: Irish Women Writers and National Identities, University of Alabama Press (Tuscaloosa, AL), 2000.
  • Longley, Edna, Poetry in the Wars, Bloodaxe (Newcastle on Tyne, England), 1986.
  • Mahoney, John L., editor,Seeing into the Life of Things: Essays on Literature and Religious Experience, Fordham University Press (New York, NY), 1998.
  • Malloy, Catharine, and Phyllis Carey, editors, Seamus Heaney—The Shaping Spirit, University of Delaware Press (Newark, NJ), 1996.
  • McGuinness, Arthur E., Seamus Heaney: Poet and Critic, P. Lang (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Molino, Michael R., Questioning Tradition, Language, and Myth: The Poetry of Seamus Heaney, Catholic University of America Press (New York, NY), 1994.
  • Morrison, Blake, Seamus Heaney, Methuen (London, England), 1982.
  • O'Brien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney and the Place of Writing, Florida University Press (Gainesville, FL), 2002.
  • O'Brien, Eugene, Seamus Heaney: Creating Ireland of the Mind, Liffey Press (Dublin, Ireland), 2003.
  • Parini, Jay, editor, British Writers: Retrospective Supplement I, Scribner (New York, NY), 2002.
  • Roberts, Neil, editor, A Companion to Twentieth-Century Poetry, Blackwell (Oxford, England), 2001.
  • Scott, Jamie S., and Paul Simpson-Housley, editors, Mapping the Sacred: Religion, Geography, and Postcolonial Literatures, Rodopi (Amsterdam, Netherlands), 2001.
  • Stewart, Bruce, editor, That Other World, Smythe (Gerrards Cross, England), 1998.
  • Thomas, Harry, editor, Talking with Poets, Handsel (New York, NY), 2002.
  • Tobin, Daniel, Passage to the Center: Imagination and the Sacred in the Poetry of Seamus Heaney, University Press of Kentucky (Lexington, KY), 1999.
  • Vendler, Helen, Seamus Heaney, Harvard University Press (Cambridge, MA), 1998.
  • Viewpoints: Poets in Conversation with John Haffenden, Faber (London, England), 1981.
  • Welch, Robert, Changing States: Transformations in Modern Irish Writing, Routledge (London, England), 1993.
  • Wills, Clair, Improprieties: Politics and Sexuality in Northern Irish Poetry, Oxford University Press (Oxford, England), 1993.
PERIODICALS
  • America, August 3, 1996, p. 24; March 29, 1997, p. 10; October 11, 1997, p. 8; December 20, 1997, p. 24; July 31, 1999, John F. Desmond, "Measures of a Poet," p. 24; July 31, 1999, p. 24; April 23, 2001, p. 25.
  • American Scholar, autumn, 1981.
  • Antioch Review, spring, 1993; spring, 1999, p. 246.
  • Ariel, October, 1998, p. 7.
  • Atlantis, June, 2001, p. 7.
  • Back Stage, December 19, 1997, review of The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles' "Philoctetes," p. 34.
  • Booklist, May 1, 1996, p. 1485; October 15, 1998, review of "Opened Ground," p. 388; February 15, 2000, Ray Olson, "A New Verse Translation," p. 1073; March 15, 2001, p. 1346; May 1, 2002, p. 1499.
  • Books for Keeps, September, 1997, p. 30.
  • Canadian Journal of Irish Studies, July, 1998, p. 51; December, 1998, p. 63.
  • Christian Scholar's Review, fall, 2001, p. 59.
  • Christian Science Monitor, April 22, 1999, Elizabeth Lund, "The Enticing Sounds of This Irishman's Verse," p. 20; February 3, 2000, "' Harry Potter' Falls to a Medieval Slayer," p. 1; April 13, 2000, p. 15; April 26, 2001, p. 19.
  • Classical and Modern Literature, spring, 1999, p. 243; fall, 2001, p. 71.
  • Commonweal, May 17, 1996, p. 10; November 6, 1998, p. 18; December 1, 2000, p. 22.
  • Contemporary Literature, winter, 1999, p. 627.
  • Contemporary Review, April, 2000, p. 206.
  • Critical Inquiry, spring, 1982.
  • Critical Quarterly, spring, 1974; spring, 1976.
  • Daily Telegraph (London, England), February 19, 2000, p. 116; March 31, 2001; April 13, 2002; May 5, 2003.
  • Dalhousie Review, autumn, 2000, p. 351.
  • Economist, September 12, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 14; November 20, 1999, "Translations of the Spirit," p. 101; June 23, 2001, p. 121.
  • Eire-Ireland, summer, 1978; winter, 1980; fall-winter, 2001, p. 7.
  • Encounter, November, 1975.
  • English, summer-autumn, 1997; summer, 1998, p. 111; summer, 2000, p. 143; summer, 2001, p. 149.
  • Essays in Criticism, April, 1998, p. 144.
  • Evening Standard, April 9, 2001, p. 47; April 8, 2002, p. 52.
  • Explicator, fall, 2002, p. 56.
  • Financial Times, March 21, 1998, p. 5; March 24, 2001, p. 4; March 30, 2002, p. 4; September 27, 2003, p. 26.
  • Globe and Mail (Toronto, Ontario, Canada), September 3, 1988.
  • Guardian (London, England), April 3, 1997, p. 9; October 9, 1999, p. 6; October 16, 1999, p. 10; October 18, 1999, p. 17; December 4, 1999, p. 11; January 19, 2000, p. 21; January 29, 2000, p. 3; September 30, 2000, p. 11; March 24, 2001, p. 12; April 7, 2001, p. 8; July 27, 2002, p. 21.
  • Harper's, March, 1981.
  • Harvard Review, fall, 1999, p. 74; fall, 2000, p. 12.
  • Independent (London, England), April 5, 1997, p. 7; December 1, 1997, p. 5; September 5, 1998, p. 17; September 8, 1998, p. 11; April 10, 1999, p. 5; October 2, 1999, p. 10; January 26, 2000, p. 5; January 29, 2000, p. 5; March 31, 2001, p. 10; June 16, 2001, p. 11; December 8, 2001, p. 9; February 19, 2003, p. 5; September 27, 2003, p. 33.
  • Independent on Sunday (London, England), April 6, 1997, p. 29; July 20, 1997, p. 32; November 9, 1997, p. 38; September 6, 1998, p. 10; March 21, 1999, p. 9; April 4, 1999, p. 11; October 10, 1999, p. 10; April 8, 2001, p. 46.
  • Irish Literary Supplement, fall, 1997, p. 14.
  • Irish Studies Review , spring, 1996; December, 2002, p. 303.
  • Irish Times (Dublin, Ireland), February 22, 2003, p. 61; April 12, 2003, p. 62; July 5, 2003, p. 57; July 12, 2003, p. 59; July 19, 2003, p. 55; August 2, 2003, p. 59; October 25, 2003, p. 55.
  • Irish University Review, spring-summer, 1998, pp. 56, 68; autumn-winter, 1999, p. 358.
  • Journal of Commonwealth and Postcolonial Studies, spring, 2000, p. 51.
  • Journal of Modern Literature, summer, 2000, pp. 471, 597; fall, 2001, p. 1.
  • Jouvert, fall, 1999, p. 40.
  • Kentucky Philological Review, March, 1998, p. 17.
  • Kenyon Review, winter, 2002, p. 160.
  • Kliatt, March, 1998, p. 57.
  • Library Journal, May 15, 1997, review of The Spirit Level, p. 120; September 1, 1997, review of The Spirit Level, p. 235; April 1, 1999, Barbara Hoffert, review of Opened Ground, p. 96; December, 1999, Thomas L. Cooksey, review of Beowulf, p. 132; August, 2000, p. 110; April 1, 2001, p. 104; April 1, 2002, p. 106; June 1, 2002, p. 155.
  • Listener, December 7, 1972; November 8, 1973; September 25, 1975; December 20-27, 1984.
  • Lit, October, 1999, pp. 149, 181.
  • Literature and Theology, March, 2003, p. 32.
  • London Review of Books, November 1-14, 1984; May 27, 1999, review of Opened Ground, p. 20.
  • Los Angeles Times, May 16, 1984; January 5, 1989; December 31, 2000, p. 6; April 22, 2001, p. 3.
  • Los Angeles Times Book Review, March 2, 1980; October 21, 1984; June 2, 1985; October 27, 1987; August 26, 1990; December 27, 1992.
  • Nation, November 10, 1979; December 4, 1995, p. 716; January 4, 1999, Jay Parini, review of Opened Ground, p. 25.
  • New Boston Review, August-September, 1980.
  • New Criterion, May, 2000, p. 31.
  • New Literary History, winter, 1999, p. 239.
  • New Republic, March 27, 1976; December 22, 1979; April 30, 1984; February 18, 1985; January 13, 1997, review of Homage to Robert Frost, p. 14; February 28, 2000, Nicholas Howe, "Scullionspeak," p. 32; February 28, 2000, p. 32.
  • New Statesman, April 25, 1997; September 18, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 54; April 15, 2001, p. 53.
  • Newsweek, February 2, 1981; April 15, 1985; February 28, 2000, Malcolm Jones, "'Beowulf' Brawling: A Classic Gets a Makeover," p. 68.
  • New Yorker, September 28, 1981; September 23, 1985; March 20, 2000, pp. 54, 56-66, 68, 79.
  • New York Review of Books, September 20, 1973; September 30, 1976; March 6, 1980; October 8, 1981; March 14, 1985; June 25, 1992; March 4, 1999, Fintan O'Toole, review of Opened Ground, p. 43; July 20, 2000, p. 18; November 29, 2001, p. 49; December 5, 2002, p. 54.
  • New York Times, April 22, 1979; January 11, 1985; November 24, 1998, Michiko Kakutani, review of Opened Ground; January 30, 1999, p. B11; January 20, 2000, Sarah Lyall, "Wizard vs. Dragon: A Close Contest, but the Fire-Breather Wins," p. A17; January 27, 2000, p. A27; February 22, 2000, Richard Eder, "Beowulf and Fate Meet in a Modern Poet's Lens," p. B8; March 20, 2000, Mel Gussow, "An Anglo-Saxon Chiller (with an Irish Touch)," p. B1; February 1, 2001, pB3, E3; April 20, 2001, p. B37, E39; May 27, 2001, p. AR19; June 2, 2001, p. A15, B9; September 30, 2002, p. B3, E3.
  • New York Times Book Review, March 26, 1967; April 18, 1976; December 2, 1979; December 21, 1980; May 27, 1984; March 10, 1985; March 5, 1989; December 14, 1995, p. 15; June 1, 1997, p. 52; December 20, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 10; June 6, 1999, review of Opened Ground, p. 37; February 27, 2000, James Shapiro, "A Better 'Beowulf'" p. 6; December 3, 2000, p. 9; April 8, 2001, p. 16; April 29, 2001, p. 22; June 3, 2001, p. 24; October 6, 2002, p. 33.
  • New York Times Magazine, March 13, 1983.
  • Nexos, July, 1999, p. 83.
  • Observer (London, England), March 23, 1997, p. 16; January 4, 1998, p. 15; September 6, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 17; November 7, 1999, p. 8; January 23, 2000, p. 11; September 10, 2000, p. 16; April 15, 2001, p. 15; April 7, 2002, p. 13.
  • Papers on Language and Literature, spring, 2001, p. 205.
  • Parnassus, spring-summer, 1974; fall-winter, 1977; fall-winter, 1979.
  • Partisan Review, number 3, 1986; fall, 1997, p. 674.
  • Philosophy and Literature, October, 2002, p. 405.
  • Poetry, June, 1992; December, 2000, p. 211; February, 2002, p. 296.
  • Princeton University Library Chronicle, spring, 1998, p. 559.
  • Publishers Weekly, April 29, 1996, p. 63; January 27, 1997, p. 14; November 2, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 74; February 7, 2000, Jana Riess, "Heaney Takes U.K.'s Whitbread Prize," p. 18; February 14, 2000, Judy Quinn, "Will Readers Cry 'Wulf'?," p. 86; February 21, 2000, review of Beowulf, p. 84; March 13, 2000, Daisy Maryles, "A Real Backlist Mover," p. 22; August 14, 2000, p. 349; September 4, 2000, p. 44; February 19, 2001, p. 87.
  • Saturday Review, July-August, 1985.
  • Sewanee Review, winter, 1976; April-June, 1998, p. 184.
  • South Carolina Review , fall, 1999, pp. 119, 132.
  • Southern Review, January, 1980; spring, 2000, p. 418; spring, 2002, p. 358.
  • Spectator, September 6, 1975; December 1, 1979; November 24, 1984; June 27, 1987; September 16, 1995, p. 39; September 5, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 36; April 6, 2002, p. 32.
  • Sunday Times (London, England), September 6, 1998, p. 7; October 3, 1999, p, 4; October 17, 1999, p. 41; February 6, 2000, p. 18; October 1, 2000, p. 46; December 10, 2000, p. 16; April 1, 2001, p. 35; April 14, 2002, p. 34; April 13, 2003, p. 49.
  • Symbiosis, April, 1999, p. 63; October, 2002, p. 133.
  • Time, March 19, 1984; February 25, 1985; October 16, 1995; March 20, 2000, Paul Gray, "There Be Dragons: Seamus Heaney's Stirring Translation of Beowulf Makes Waves on Both Shores of the Atlantic," p. 84.
  • Times (London, England), October 11, 1984; January 24, 1985; October 22, 1987; June 3, 1989; September 11, 1998, p. 21; October 29, 1998, p. 44; March 27, 1999, p. 16; September 23, 1999, p. 42; October 26, 1999, p. 50; May 20, 2000, p. 19; April 4, 2001, p. 15; April 17, 2002, p. 21; July 2, 2003, p. 2.
  • Times Educational Supplement, November 7, 1997, p. 2; September 11, 1998, review of Opened Ground, p. 11.
  • Times Literary Supplement, June 9, 1966; July 17, 1969; December 15, 1972; August 1, 1975; February 8, 1980; October 31, 1980; November 26, 1982; October 19, 1984; June 26, 1987; July 1-7, 1988; December 6, 1991; October 20, 1995, p. 9.
  • Tribune Books (Chicago, IL), April 19, 1981; September 9, 1984; November 8, 1987; November 25, 1990.
  • Twentieth Century Literature, fall, 2000, p. 269.
  • Twentieth-Century Studies, November, 1970.
  • U.S. News and World Report, March 20, 2000, Brendan I. Koerner, "Required Reading," p. 68.
  • Variety, May 4, 1998, Markland Taylor, review of "The Cure at Troy," p. 96.
  • Virginia Quarterly Review, autumn, 1992.
  • Wall Street Journal, April 2, 1999, review of Opened Ground, p. W6; February 24, 2000, Elizabeth Bukowski, "Seamus Heaney Tackles Beowulf," p. A16; March 10, 2000, "Slaying Dragons," p. W17.
  • Washington Post Book World, January 6, 1980; January 25, 1981; May 20, 1984; January 27, 1985; August 19, 1990.
  • Washington Times, November 29, 1998, p. 6; February 6, 2000, p. 8; June 9, 2002, p. B08.
  • World Literature Today, summer, 1977; autumn, 1981; summer, 1983; autumn, 1996, p. 963; summer, 1999, p. 534; autumn, 2000, p. 247; winter, 2001, p. 119; winter, 2002, p. 110.
ONLINE
  • Biblio, http:// www.biblio-india.com/ (November-December, 2000).
  • Interviews with Poets, http://www.interviews-with-poets.com/ (March 26, 2004).*