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Heaney, Seamus

(Encyclopedia) Heaney, Seamus (Seamus Justin Heaney)Heaney, Seamusshāˈməs, hēˈnē [key], 1939–2013, Irish poet, one of the finest contemporary English poets, b. Londonderry (now Derry), Northern…

Vendler, Helen Hennessy

(Encyclopedia) Vendler, Helen Hennessy, 1933–, American poetry critic, b. Boston, Ph.D. Harvard, 1960. One of America's most lucid critics of poetry, uniquely adept at close reading, she is also…

In Joyce's Wake

Contemporary Irish writers live up to legend by Ricco Villanueva Siasoco Ulysses: Joyce's masterpiece. Related Links Notable Irish WritersThe Booker PrizeBest Novels of the CenturySt. Patrick…

Beowulf

(Encyclopedia) BeowulfBeowulfbāˈəw&oobreve;lf [key], oldest English epic, probably composed in the early 8th cent. by an Anglian bard in the vicinity of Northumbria. It survives in only one…

Medbh McGuckian Biography

Medbh McGuckianpoetBorn: 8/12/1950Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland Noted for what one critic has called the “hypnotic oddness” of her verse, Medbh (pronounced Maeve) McGuckian belongs to…

Paul Muldoon Biography

Paul MuldoonpoetBorn: 1951Birthplace: Portadown, County Armagh, Northern Ireland Designated “one of the two or three most accomplished rhymers now writing in the English language” by the New…

Michael Longley Biography

Michael LongleypoetBorn: 1939Birthplace: Belfast, Northern Ireland One of many Northern Irish poets, Seamus Heaney being the most famous, whose emergence in the 1970s coincided with the…

Poetry Month | Notable Poets

// Cite   Auden, Byron, Chaucer, and more     A-B | C-D | E-H | J-M | N-R | S-T | U-Z   Amiri Baraka   Abu Nuwas Addison, Joseph Aidoo, Ama Ata Aiken, Conrad…

Recommended Online Poetry Collections

Poetry resources and poetry in the public domain compiled by David Johnson Follow, poet, follow right To the bottom of the night, With your unconstraining voice Still persuade us…