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Seamus Heaney

1939 - 2013

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Seamus Justin Heaney (13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Seamus Heaney has received more than 2,711,841 page views. His biography is available in 89 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 83 in 2019). Seamus Heaney is the 1,438th most popular writer (up from 1,657th in 2019), the 1,093rd most popular biography from United Kingdom (up from 1,324th in 2019) and the 125th most popular British Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 2.7M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 58.86

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 89

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.33

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 7.38

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

Preoccupations
Poetics, History and criticism, English poetry
1980
Beowulf
Long Now Manual for Civilization
2000
Sweeney astray
Poetry, Legends, Tales
1983
The Spirit Level
Fiction, Poetry
An irresistibly coherent book which celebrates the rising and the raising of the human spirit.' Michael Hofmann, The Times'If any poetry written today can have this 'redemptive effect' - as Heaney in his critical writing has begun to claim it can - then this is it.' Mick Imlah, Independent on Sunday
1996
Death of a naturalist
Fiction, Poetry, English poetry
Between my finger and my thumb The squat pen rests; snug as a gun.-- from 'Digging'With its lyrical and descriptive powers, Death of a Naturalist marked the auspicious debut of one of the century's finest poets.
1966
The redress of poetry
History and criticism, Poetry, English poetry
1990

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Seamus Heaney ranks 1,438 out of 7,302. Before him are Ivan Vazov, Branko Ćopić, Miklós Zrínyi, Georges Feydeau, Petar Zrinski, and Wilhelm Müller. After him are Giuseppe Ungaretti, Qiu Chuji, Hieronymus of Cardia, Virginia Henderson, Régis Debray, and Li Qingzhao.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1939, Seamus Heaney ranks 93. Before him are Lucia Popp, Peter Bogdanovich, Manuel Vázquez Montalbán, Jānis Lūsis, Chandra Bahadur Dangi, and Daniel C. Tsui. After him are Infanta Margarita, Duchess of Soria, Eugene Fama, Nikola Pilić, Bernard Kouchner, Yaphet Kotto, and Cynthia Lennon. Among people deceased in 2013, Seamus Heaney ranks 75. Before him are David H. Hubel, Roger Ebert, Conrad Bain, Wojciech Kilar, Damiano Damiani, and Bigas Luna. After him are Kenneth Waltz, Sławomir Mrożek, Wilfried Martens, Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, Ottmar Walter, and Rossana Podestà.

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In United Kingdom

Among people born in United Kingdom, Seamus Heaney ranks 1,093 out of 8,785. Before him are Ryan Giggs (1973), John Tenniel (1820), Don Airey (1948), E. E. Evans-Pritchard (1902), William Henry (1774), and Helen McCrory (1968). After him are Joseph Swan (1828), Matilda of Scotland (1080), Ian Rush (1961), Henry Walter Bates (1825), James Dunlop (1793), and Patrick Macnee (1922).

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Among WRITERS In United Kingdom

Among writers born in United Kingdom, Seamus Heaney ranks 125. Before him are Neil Gaiman (1960), Lee Child (1954), Allan Pinkerton (1819), James Murray (1837), Robert Browning (1812), and Jane Hawking (1944). After him are Winifred Wagner (1897), Colin Dexter (1930), Elizabeth Siddal (1829), Vita Sackville-West (1892), Lady Mary Wortley Montagu (1689), and Allen Carr (1934).

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