SEAMUS HEANEY (ca. late-1980s) Set of 2 portraits

Seamus Heaney. Np: ca. late-1980s. Pair of vintage original 10 x 8″ (25 x 20 cm) black-and-white photos, both with photographer credit affixed to verso. Near fine.

Two portraits of the Irish poet and playwright Seamus Justin Heaney (1939-2013), who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. 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”. (Wikipedia)