No matter where they are set -- in Ireland or the underworld -- Heaney's poems concern place first and always. I cannot think of another living poet more acutely aware of and conversant with ...

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.

Heaney, we learn, sometimes drove himself to exhaustion on the lecture circuit and slowed down when he realized he could not always give his best performance, forsaking larger fees as he reached out ...

As mentioned in Good Morning News, the renowned Irish poet, Seamus Heaney, has died. I had plenty of his poetry foisted upon me in my senior high school English class, and various obituaries and ...

Seamus Heaney was already one of Ireland’s best-known poets when the sectarian violence of “The Troubles” swept through Northern Ireland in the 1970s and ‘80s. An Irish Republican activist ...

Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth century, died in Dublin on Friday at the age of 74. Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who ...

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 ...

The late Irish Nobel Prize-winning poet Seamus Heaney often wrote about food—here are some excerpts from his tastiest work ...

Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has died, the BBC and other news outlets are reporting. Heaney was 74 and had recently been in ill health.

The last great academic don of Harvard wears no black robes and confines himself to no ivory tower. Seamus Heaney is a man of letters but not airs; he has the easy intellectualism of a scholarly ...

I had pulled from the shelf the U.K. version of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney,” published by Faber & Faber there in the late spring (and now here by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 800-plus pages ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, has passed away at the age of 74. According to the BBC, he had "recently suffered from ill health." ...