Seamus Heaney may well be the poet of our age. If that sounds too grand, consider the body of work that over the past 44 years has established him as both Anglophone poetry's guardian spirit and its ...

DUBLIN — Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s foremost poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, died Friday after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within ...

“A poet’s hope,” wrote Auden, is “to be, / like some valley cheese, / local, but prized elsewhere.” No poet fulfilled that hope like Seamus Heaney. Born near Castledawson in 1939, he was loved the ...

It is no accident that Seamus Heaney’s selected poems is titled “Opened Ground,” since writing poems for this most remarkable farm boy was a kind of digging: “Between my finger and my thumb / The ...

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 ...

In 1964, an intrepid editor at the New Statesman magazine published three poems by the then-unknown Irish poet Seamus Heaney. One of them, "Digging," which opens his first poetry collection, is a ...

DUBLIN — Seamus Heaney, Ireland’s foremost poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, died Friday after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within ...

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 by the thousands. He won the Nobel Prize for ...

Seamus Heaney was real. Were he a fictional character, however, we likely would call him unrealistic, his life story and his career too good to be true. Like Robert Frost and W. H. Auden, but perhaps ...

Seamus Heaney died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

DUBLIN – Seamus Heaney, Ireland's foremost poet who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995, died Friday after a half-century exploring the wild beauty of Ireland and the political torment within ...