Beowulf, now in Seamus Heaney's inspired translation - the Whitbread Book of the Year 1999 - is a classic of world literature and poetry.
Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in County Derry in Northern Ireland.
He grew up in the country, on a farm, in touch with a traditional
rural way of life, which he wrote about in his first book Death of
a Naturalist (1966). He attended the local school and in 1951 went
as a boarder to St Columb's College, about 40 miles away in Derry
(the poem 'Singing School' in North refers to this period of his
life). In 1956 he went on a scholarship to Queen's University,
Belfast and graduated with a first class degree in English Language
and Literature in 1961. He has published poetry, criticism and
translations which have established him as one of the leading poets
of his generation.
In 1995 he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. District and
Circle is his twelfth collection of poems, and his first new
collection for five years.
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