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Seamus Heaney

Nobel-Prize winning poet Seamus Heaney was a Phillips Exeter Academy Lamont Poet in 1985.

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Biographical & Autobiographical Sources

Biography: Seamus Heaney
from The Columbia Granger's World of Poetry.
Heaney's Noble Lecture
Audio recording of Seamus Heaney's Nobel Prize acceptance speech. (51 minutes)

Seamus Heaney Reciting His Poems

Video Recordings

Audio

Audio of Seamus Heaney reading "Digging", from Death of a Naturalist collection
Audio of "Personal Helicon", from Death of A Naturalist collection - Internet Poetry Archive