Report on Seamus Heaney.

... Contents Introduction 3 Biography 3 Favourite Poems 5 Mid-term Break 5 The Early Purges 5 Comparison Between Mid-Term Break and The Early Purges 6 Bibliography 7 Introduction In this report I will be talking about my favourite poet, Seamus Heaney. Included in this report is a biography of Seamus Heaney. At the end is a comparison between my two favourite poems. Biography Seamus Heaney was born in April 1939, the eldest member of a family which would eventually contain nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm of some fifty acres in County Derry in Northern Ireland, but the father's real commitment was to cattle dealing. There was something very congenial to Patrick Heaney about the cattle-dealer's way of life to which he was introduced by the uncles who had cared for him after the early death of his own parents. The poet's mother came from a family called McCann whose connections were more with the modern world than with the traditional rural economy; her uncles

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