Death of a Naturalist

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Death of a Naturalist is Seamus Heaney’s acclaimed debut poetry collection, noted for its vivid depictions of rural Irish life and the natural world.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf book
poetry collection
author Seamus Heaney
awarded Cholmondeley Award (for Seamus Heaney, partly on the strength of this collection)
containsPoem Ancestral Photograph
At a Potato Digging
Blackberry-Picking
Death of a Naturalist self-linksurface differs
surface form: Death of a Naturalist (poem)

Digging
Follower
Mid-Term Break
Personal Helicon
Poem
Scaffolding
Storm on the Island
The Barn
The Diviner
The Early Purges
The Folk Singers
The Forge
The Plantation
Twice Shy
Valediction
countryOfOrigin Ireland
criticalReception acclaimed
debutWorkOf Seamus Heaney
firstEditionFormat print
genre poetry
hasPart two sections
hasSubject Catholic upbringing in Northern Ireland
Irish rural culture
influenced later Irish poets
language English
literaryMovement contemporary Irish poetry
mediaType print
notableFor exploration of the natural world
vivid depictions of rural Irish life
placeOfPublication London, England
surface form: London
publicationYear 1966
publisher Faber and Faber
section ‘Churning Day’ section
‘Death of a Naturalist’ section
setting rural Ireland
theme childhood
family relationships
loss of innocence
memory
nature
rural labor

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Seamus Heaney notableWork Death of a Naturalist
Death of a Naturalist containsPoem Death of a Naturalist self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: Death of a Naturalist (poem)
Wintering Out includedIn Death of a Naturalist
this entity surface form: Seamus Heaney bibliography
Door into the Dark follows Death of a Naturalist
Christopher Heaney notableWork Death of a Naturalist
subject surface form: Seamus Heaney