Death of a Naturalist is a collection of poems written by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. The collection was Heaney's first major published volume, and includes ideas that he had presented at meetings of The Belfast Group. Death of a Naturalist won the Cholmondeley Award, the Gregory Award, the Somerset Maugham Award, and the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
“I rhyme
To see myself, to set the darkness echoing.”
"Personal Helicon", line 19, from Eleven Poems (1965).
Other Quotes
Source: Death of a Naturalist
"Digging", line 25, from Death of a Naturalist (1966).
Poetry Quotes, Death of a Naturalist
“God is a foreman with certain definite views
Who orders life in shifts of work and leisure.”
"Docker", line 10, from Death of a Naturalist.
Poetry Quotes, Death of a Naturalist
