Seamus Heaney is among the most famous and esteemed living poets. His 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature confirmed the image most already had of him, as a towering figure, a grandmaster, an eminence.

Searching inside ‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ for the poet (and myself) The massive 800-page collection includes messages written by the Nobel Prize winner around the time Lawrence WIlson ...

FILE -- Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and author, in Lincoln Center Plaza, New York, April 13, 2001. Heaney, who is recognized as one of the major poets of the 20th century, died Aug. 30, 2013.

Poet Seamus Heaney, 74, Dug the 'Wideness of Language' With His Pen… Arts Aug 30 Nobel Laureate, World Famous Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth ...

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 ...

World-renowned poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney died at age 74 in his native Ireland after a brief illness. Jeffrey Brown looks back on an interview he did with the poet two years ago where ...

Jim Commentucci / The Post-StandardNobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney speaks at the Rosamond Gifford Lecture Series at the Civic Center in Syracuse in 2004. Heaney speaks at Syracuse ...

Nobel-Winning Irish Poet Seamus Heaney Dies at 74 The revered author passed away in a Dublin hospital.

Celebrating Seamus Heaney’s Legacy, at His Birthplace A 21,000-square-foot arts center has opened in Bellaghy, Northern Ireland, where the Nobel Prize-winning poet was born.

“Letters of Seamus Heaney” is the latest release of work from the late Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet.