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.
This writer and lecturer won this prize "for works of lyrical beauty and ethical depth, which exalt everyday miracles and the living past."
Heaney on Wikipedia.