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Aeschylus, 156, 171
Anahorish School, xi
Armstrong, Sean, 60, 64, 74
Belfast riots (1969), 8, 39
‘Bloody Sunday’ (1972), xiii, 1, 18, 39, 65
Buile Suibhne, xiv, 4, 92, 101
Bunyan, John, 123
Caedmon, 157, 158
Carleton, William, 93, 94, 96
Carson, Ciaran, 4, 5
Carysfort Teacher TrainingCollege, xiii
Celan, Paul, 1, 9
Cézanne, Paul, 101, 160
Chekhov, Anton, 101
Clarke, Austin, 13
Commonwealth Award, xv
Corcoran, Neil, 21
Dante, 4, 73, 92, 96, 116, 137, 153
Deane, Seamus, xi, 4
Derry riots (1969), 8, 39
Diogenes, 117–18
Duff Cooper Award, xiii
Eliot, T.S., 8
Emmet, Robert, 104
Ficino, Marsilio, 131
Field, John, 64
Field Day, xiv
Field Day Theatre Company, xv
Friel, Brian, xiv
Frost, Robert, 4
Glob, P.V., 34, 39, 41, 43–4
Gonne, Maud, 64
Goya, 51
Greek Anthology, 5
Guthrie, W.K.C., 75
Hardy, Thomas, 138
Harvard University, xiv, xv
Heaney, Catherine Anne(daughter), xiii, 59
Heaney, Christopher (brother), xi
Heaney, Christopher (son), xii, 59
Heaney, Hugh (brother), 157, 164–7
Heaney, Margaret Kathleen(mother), xi, xv, 76, 77, 83, 111, 114
Heaney, Marie (Devlin), xii, 59, 67, 155, 157
Heaney, Mary (aunt), 108, 143
Heaney, Michael (son), xii, 59
Heaney, Patrick (father), xi, xv, 75–7, 80–1, 111, 114
HEANEY SEAMUS,
works:
Crediting Poetry (Nobel Lecture), 1, 5, 6
The Cure at Troy, xv, 6
Death of a Naturalist, xii, 14, 18, 79,
Door into the Dark, xii, 14, 18, 38, 39, 89, 146
Field Work, xiv, 58, 59–60, 65, 66, 69–70, 72, 74–7, 87, 90, 92, 96, 139
The Government of the Tongue, xv, 6, 11
The Haw Lantern, xv, 2, 75, 105, 111, 113–33, 136, 139, 143, 144, 150
North, xiii, 2, 3, 38, 40, 45, 48, 50,. 55,. 56, 74,. 86, 87, 89, 108, 139, 150, 152
The Place of Writing, xv, 6
Poems 1965–19 75, xiv, Preoccupations, xiv, 5, 17
The Redress of Poetry, xv, 6, 17–18
Seeing Things, xv, 113, 133, 137–8, 140, 143, 145, 146–9, 150–2
Selected Poems 1966–1987, xv, 28, 79
The Spirit Level, xv, xvi, 23, 25, 105, 113, 133, 146, 152, 156–7, 168
Station Island, xv, 2, 35,. 55,. 77,. 85, 92, 101, 105, 111
Sweeney Astray, xiv, 92
Wintering Out, xiii, 31, 33, 37,. 39,. 40,. 58, 65, 83, 86
‘Feeling into Words’ (essay), 3, 41, 79
‘Frontiers of Writing’ (essay), 137
poems:
‘An Afterwards’, 73
‘Alphabets’, 15, 127, 130–3
‘Anahorish’, 18, 28
‘Antaeus’, 89
‘At a Potato Digging’, 21
‘At the Wellhead’, 159
‘The Backward Look’, 58
‘The Badgers’, 74, 78, 90–1, 102
‘Belfast’, 87
‘Bloody Sunday’, xiii
‘Bog Oak’, 87
‘Bog Queen’, 44, 45–8, 50
‘Bogland’, 38–9
‘Bye-Child’, 32, 33
‘Casualty”, 60, 62, 64–5
‘Churning Day’, 35
‘Clearances’, xv, 77, 83, 111, 113–14
‘The Cleric’, 140
‘Damson’, 85, 105–7, 109–10
‘Death of a Naturalist’, 28, 29–30
‘Digging’, 28–9, 93
‘The Disappearing Island’, 119
‘Docker’, 79, 83
‘A Dog Was Crying Tonight in Wicklow Also’, 174
‘A Drink of Water’, 74
‘Elegy’, 61–2
‘Exposure’, 87–9, 128
‘Field of Vision’, 136
‘The First Kingdom’, 35–6, 37, 99
‘The Flight Path’, 175
‘Follower’, 20–1
‘The Forge’, 19
‘From the Canton of Expectation’, 123, 125, 130
‘From the Frontier of Writing’, 115–17, 119, 129–30
‘From the Land of the Unspoken’, 125
‘Funeral Rites’, 38, 52–3
‘Glanmore Sonnets’, 66–9
‘The Grauballe Man’, 44–5, 50, 126
‘Grotus and Coventina’, 127
‘The Harvest Bow’, 74
‘The Haw Lantern’, 19–20
‘Hercules and Antaeus’, 89–90
‘High Summer’, 66
‘In the Beech’, 36, 37, 99
‘In Memoriam: Robert Fitzgerald’, 119
‘Keeping Going’, 156, 164, 175
‘Limbo’, 23, 31–3
‘Linen Town’, 84–5, 123
‘A Lough Neagh Sequence’, 20
‘Maighdean Mara’, 23
‘Midas’, 19
‘Mid-Term Break’, xi, 28, 30–1
‘The Milk Factory’, 119
‘Mossbawn’, 15
‘Mother’, 23, 37
‘The Mud Vision’, 144–5
‘Mycenae Lookout’, 9, 155, 156–7, 168–74, 175
‘The Old Icons’, 102–5
On the Road’, 56, 99
‘Oracle’, 15, 28, 29
‘Orange Drums, Tyrone 1966’, 79, 80, 83
‘The Other Side’, 28, 35, 81–3
‘Oysters’, 70–2
‘Parable Island’, 123
‘The Peninsula’, 23–5, 26, 71–2, 144, 146
‘Personal Helicon’, 28, 29
‘A Pillowed Head’, xiii
‘Poet’s Chair’, 168
‘Postscript’, 25, 26, 71–2, 146
‘The Pulse’, 139
‘Punishment’, 44, 48–50
‘Relic of Memory’, 28
‘Requiem for the Croppies’, 11–2, 85
’The Riddle’, 119–21
‘Rite of Spring’, 20
‘St Francis and the Birds’, 23
‘St Kevin and the Blackbird’, 156, 159–64
‘The Scribes’, 100–1
‘The Seed Cutters’, 13, 19, 108
‘Seeing Things’, 142
‘A Shooting Script’, 119
‘Shootings of the Third of May’, 51
‘Shore Woman’, 23
‘Singing School’, xii, 9, 16, 51
‘The Skunk’, 69
‘A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal’, 7
‘Squarings’, 136–9, 140, 145, 147, 149
‘Station Island’, xi, xiv, 61, 78, 92–9, 105, 111–12, 127, 152
‘Stations’, 27, 80
‘The Stone Verdict’, xv, 75, 76–7
‘The Strand at Lough Beg’, 60–1, 96
‘Strange Fruit’, 48
‘Summer Home’, 65
‘Sunlight’, 108–10
‘Sweeney Redivivus’, 35–6, 92, 99, 102, 140
‘Terminus’, 10, 121
‘Thatcher’, 19, 21
‘The Thimble’, 133–5
‘Three Drawings’, 139
‘Tollund’, xv, 155–6
‘The Tollund Man’, 34, 42–4, 50, 126
‘Trial Runs’, 80
‘Triptych’, xiii
‘An Ulster Twilight’, 85
‘Undine’, 22
‘The Walk’, 153, 156, 158
‘Whatever You Say Say Nothing’, 40, 74
‘Wheels Within Wheels’, 144
‘The Wife’s Tale’, 20, 22
‘Wolfe Tone’, 127, 129–30
‘The Wool Trade’, 83
Herbert, Zbigniew, 4, 117
Hewitt, John, 4
Hill, Geoffrey, 21
Hobsbaum, Philip, xii
Holub, Miroslav, 117
Hopkins, Gerard Manley, 4, 25, 30
Hughes, Francis, xiv, 93
Hughes, Ted, 4
John of the Cross, Saint, 98
Joyce, James, 4, 31, 93, 96–8
Kavanagh, Patrick, xii, 4, 96
Keats, John, 6, 7, 30, 169
Keenan, Rosie, 157, 158–9
Kevin, Saint, 157, 160
Kinsella, Thomas, 4
Ledwidge, Francis, 60, 63–4, 74
Lowell, Robert, xiii, 60, 61, 64, 73, 74, 127
McCartney, Colum, xiv, 60, 61, 74, 93
McCracken, Henry Joy, 84–5
McGuckian, Medbh, 4, 5
McLaverty, Michael, xii
McNally, Leonard, 104
Mahon, Derek, 4
Mandelstam, Osip, 4
Milosz, Czeslaw, 117
Milton, John, 5
Montague, John, 4
Morrison, Blake, xv
Motion, Andrew, xv
Muldoon, Paul, 4, 5
Mulholland, Carolyn, 168
Murphy, Bernard, xi
Nobel Prize for Literature, xv, 1
Nwoga, Donatus, 174
O’Neill, Louis, 60, 62, 64, 74
O’Riada, Sean, 60, 74
Ovid, 87
Palgrave’s Golden Treasury, 5
Paulin, Tom, 4, 5
Penguin Anthology of
Contemporary British Poetry, The, xv
Plath, Sylvia, 45
Popa, Vasko, 117
Queen’s University, Belfast, xi, 40
Rea, Stephen, xiv
Ronan, Saint, 92, 99
Saddlemeyer, Anne, xiii, 40
St Columb’s College, xi
St Joseph’s College of Education, xii
St Thomas’s Intermediate
School, Belfast, xii
Sands, Bobby, 104
Simmons, James, xii
Socrates, 168
Somerset Maugham Award, xiii
Sophocles, 156
Spenser, Edmund, 87
Stevens, Wallace, 120–1, 122, 139, 158
Strathearn, William, xiv, 93
Sweeney, King, 91–2, 99–101
Synge, John, 86–7
Taylor, John, 7
Tennyson, Alfred, Lord, 98
Tone, Wolfe, 127–9
University of California, Berkeley, xiii
Valéry, Paul, 141
Whitbread awards, xv, xvi
W.H. Smith Award, xiii
Wordsworth, Dorothy, 67
Wordsworth, William, 4, 5, 27, 29, 30, 67, 138, 147
Yeats, W.B., 4, 5, 10, 16, 17, 26, 41, 49, 64, 97, 99
Yeats School, Sligo, 3