Презентация, доклад по английскому языку на тему Nobel Prize Winners in Literature

August 2013 (aged 74) Blackrock, Dublin Occupation: Poet, playwright, translator Nationality: Irish Alma mater: Queen's University Belfast Period: 1966–2013

(1996) Beowulf (translation, 1999) District and Circle (2006) Human Chain (2011)

in Literature, 1995
Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et Lettres, 1996
Saoi of Aosdána, 1998
Golden Wreath of Poetry, 2001
T. S. Eliot Prize, 2006
The Griffin Trust for Excellence in Poetry Lifetime Recognition Award, 2012

academic John Sutherland, have said 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
in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".

was the first of nine children

His parentage contained both the Ireland of the cattle-herding Gaelic past and the Ulster of the Industrial Revolution;

At Queen's University Belfast he found a copy of Ted Hughes's Lupercal, which spurred him to write poetry. "Suddenly, the matter of contemporary poetry was the material of my own life"

frogspawn from a flax-dam. The narrator remembers everything he saw and felt at those times. He then remembers his teacher telling him all about frogs in a section that speaks volumes about childhood innocence. Finally, we hear about a trip to the flax-dam that went wrong. He feels threatened by the frogs and flees. His interest in nature has gone – this is the death of a "naturalist" suggested in the poem's title.