Tuesday, April 20, 2010

Great Regulars: Seamus Heaney was born April 13, 1939, and raised

by a large Catholic farming family in Mossbawn, Northern Ireland. Heaney would take inspiration for nearly all of his work from the subjects of rural Ireland, family and the natural world.

While studying for a degree in English Language and Literature at Queen's University Belfast, Seamus Heaney published his first poems in university magazines Q and Gorgon. He used the pen name "Incertus," which means "Uncertain."

from findingDulcinea: Happy Birthday: Seamus Heaney, Nobel-Winning Irish Poet

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