English Literature / Unit 17 ENL 1625 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Seamus Heaney
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The idea
Seamus Heaney, born to a farming family in Northern Ireland, identified as Irish rather than British. His first collection, Death of a Naturalist, of nineteen sixty-six, drew on rural childhood. He translated Beowulf and won the Nobel Prize in nineteen ninety-five.
In practice
Farm, Ireland, Nobel.
Where people slip
Heaney identified as Irish.
Your place on the trail
Every lesson rests on earlier ones and opens later ones. Tap any to jump.
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