Heaney was born and raised in Northern Ireland – more specifically, in rural County Derry.
If Yeats had a great-grandson of poetry, it would have been Heaney. We love to compare generations of greats, don't we? LeBron James is this generation's Michael Jordan, Jay-Z is the new Biggie, and so on.
Not only is he sometimes similar stylistically to Yeats, but Heaney also seems to have as great an influence on poetry today as Yeats did during his time. If poetry writing were an Olympic event, he would have won gold.Ī lot of critics and poetry people consider Heaney to be the finest poet since W.B.
He received more honors and awards for his work than we care to count, including the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
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