Seamus Heany "Poems 1965-1975"

Seamus Heany Premio Nobel de Literatura 1995

Seamus Heany fue de esos poetas "prácticos", si me permiten el término. Comprometido con su tiempo, con su realidad, con su dia a dia, con su cultura, con el "ser irlandés", sin caer en falsos nacionalismos o chauvinismos chabacanos.

Escribe sobre lo que ve, lo que siente, la manera como aprehende su Irlanda: sus granjas, sus ríos, sus montañas, el mar que lo rodea, el invierno que todo lo domina. Pero no es solamente una fotografía instantánea de su momento... es ese momento el que lo invita y lo lleva a la reflexión, al verso eterno, a los niveles etéreos de la poesía.

No rima, no sigue la métrica, como muchos poetas en lengua inglesa, pero no por ello sus poemas carecen de impacto, de sacudidas mentales que nos seducen a la imaginación y al pensamiento serio.
¡Qué dicha poder leerlo en el original!
Y disfrutar sus imagenes literarias, sin la intervención del experto, del editor o del traductor.

Unas pocas palabras biográficas tomadas de Wikipedia.

Seamus Justin Heaney, MRIA (/ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/; 13 April 1939 – 30 August 2013) was an Irish poet, playwright, translator and lecturer, and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the early 1960s, he became a lecturer in Belfast after attending university there, and began to publish poetry. He lived in Sandymount, Dublin, from 1972 until his death.

Heaney was a professor at Harvard from 1981 to 1997 and its Poet in Residence from 1988 to 2006. From 1989 to 1994 he was also the Professor of Poetry at Oxford and in 1996 was made a Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres. Other awards that he received include the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize (1968), the E. M. Forster Award (1975), the PEN Translation Prize (1985), the Golden Wreath of Poetry (2001), T. S. Eliot Prize (2006) and two Whitbread Prizes (1996 and 1999).In 2012, he was awarded the Lifetime Recognition Award from the Griffin Trust For Excellence In Poetry. His literary papers are held by the National Library of Ireland.

Robert Lowell called him "the most important Irish poet since Yeats" and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have echoed the sentiment that he was "the greatest poet of our age".Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller".Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".