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Mid Term Break by Seamus Heaney and Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer’s Day by William Shakespeare Seamus Heaney was born in 1939 in a small agricultural town in county Derry. In 1957 he went to Queen’s University in Belfast where he studied literature ....

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.... as a glove maker but because of declines in business it would no longer be commercially viable for him to take over his fathers business. In 1582 Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, who was the daughter of a local farmer, to whom he had a daughter in 1583 and twins, a boy and a girl, in 1585. The boy did not survive. By 1592 William Shakespeare had attained success as an actor and playwright in London. His Sonnets and poems, written between 1593 and 1609, also established him as a gifted and popular poet of the Renaissance. Shakespeare’s poetic efforts include a series of one hundred and fifty four Sonnets, in which he developed the Shakespe ....