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Wintering Out (1972) is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature.
Wintering Out. poetry by Heaney. Learn about this topic in these articles: discussed in biography. In Seamus Heaney. In Wintering Out (1972) and North (1975), he began to encompass such subjects as the violence in Northern Ireland and contemporary Irish experience, though he continued to view his subjects through a mythic and mystical filter.
Jan 1, 1972 · Works of Irish poet Seamus Justin Heaney reflect landscape, culture, and political crises of his homeland and include the collections Wintering Out (1972) and Field Work (1979) as well as a translation of Beowulf (1999). He won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995.
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The first poem of Wintering Out introduces a series of pieces in the collection that identify closely with beloved locations by featuring the sounds of and associations with Irish/ Ulster diction and pronunciation. Heaney refers to them as ‘languagey poems’ (DOD126). Recalled at a restless moment and from a huge distance, Mossbawn is a ...
WINTERING OUT. 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’.
Apr 21, 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...
In Wintering Out (1972) and, even more significantly, North (1975), the focus of Heaney’s poetry broadened to encompass the wider social and political context, enabling him to engage with the contemporary Irish situation without compromising his artistic concerns.
