Seamus Heaney was born on 13 April 1939 in County Derry, Northern Ireland. His first collection, Death of a Naturalist (Faber & Faber), was published in 1965, and was followed by nearly 100 books, including District and Circle (Faber & Faber), which won the T. S. Eliot Prize 2006; he was shortlisted for the Eliot Prize in 1996 for The...
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