Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) was an Irish poet and is considered the greatest Irish poet of the latter half of the 20th century. He was awarded several prestigious literary prizes to support this claim, ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet... Poems As 'Stepping Stones': Remembering Seamus Heaney ...

The poet Tess Taylor left her home in California last winter to spend this semester teaching in Northern Ireland. She says she's felt poetry come to life and is learning about the value of place. TESS ...

Seamus Heaney was possibly the most-read living poet. He was admired by peers and critics and loved by the general public, which bought his books... Poet Seamus Heaney Was A Teacher, Critic, ...

Vendler cast her searching eye on individual poems by great poets in the final work of her life, Inhabit the Poem: Last ...

It was an unseasonably warm night, and the upper room of the white clapboard building on Kirkland Street was lit by candles and decorated with a dozen pumpkins ready for carving. The Sanctum, as the ...

It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name. Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Heaney was 74 years old. Host Jacki Lyden ...