Seamus Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age".

- Death of a Naturalist 1966 poetry childhood, nature, innocense, rural life en

- Door into the Dark: Poems 1969 poetry rural life, darkness, tradition, nature en

- Wintering Out 1972 poetry en

- North 1975 poetry violence, ireland, myth en

- The Haw Lantern 1978 poetry conscience, truth, loss en

- Field Work: Poems 1979 poetry violence, memory, love en

- Preoccupations: Selected Prose, 1968-1978 1980 non-fiction essays en

- Sweeney Astray 1983 poetry en

- Station Island 1984 poetry en

- New and Selected Poems 1966-1987 1990 poetry memory, childhood, rural life, ireland en

- The Redress of Poetry 1995 non-fiction essays, literary criticism en

- Opened Ground 1996 poetry en

- Beowulf 2001 poetry mythology, classics, medieval en

- Electric Light: Poems 2001 poetry memory, childhood, aging, mortality en

- Finders Keepers 2002 anthology poetry, essays, literature en

- District and Circle 2006 poetry memory, mortality, aging, history en

- Human Chain 2010 poetry mortality, memory, family en