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Wintering Out (1972) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
With Wintering Out, published in 1972, Seamus Heaney confirmed his place at the forefront of a new generation of poets, his voice maturing and finding a new pitch in poems that deal with place and language, such as ‘Anahorish’, ‘Broagh’ and ‘Gifts of Rain’.
1 de ene. de 1972 · Wintering Out, like most of Heaney’s work, is a voyage to Northern Ireland—it’s nature, people, politics and cultural landscapes. Full of folklore, proverbs and allusions to the Irish language, Heaney paints the picture of a winter that is comfortless but not without hope.
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21 de abr. de 2011 · Wintering Out. Seamus Heaney. Faber & Faber, Apr 21, 2011 - Poetry - 26 pages. 'Seamus Heaney has gone beyond the themes of his earlier poetry and has made the giant step towards the most...
Heaney’s 3-poem sequence approaches the title from different angles: a man steeped in country practices announces his intention to go; the effigy he intends to leave behind will transmit the messages of home to him; creatures natural to the Irish landscape-home are under threat from lurking, man-made dangers.
Irish poet Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland, the son of a farmer. He was educated at St Columb's College in Derry and Queen's University, Belfast, graduating in 1961. He taught at Queen's University, Belfast, between 1966 and 1972 and was a visiting lecturer at the University of California in 1970/71.
Wintering Out, published by Faber and Faber in 1972, is Seamus Heaney’s third collection. The poet is in his early thirties. The totality of Heaney’s collections over more than forty years between his first collection Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Human Chain (2010) earned him a Nobel Prize for Literature and a place at the very top of ...
