The Irish poet’s work was rooted in a close feeling for the local—but reached out to embrace a world of readers.

Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) spent a good part of 40 years teaching in this country, yet he remained an Irishman, having been raised in Northern Ireland and living there as well as in the ...

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet who died last month, was supposed to have gone to Emory University next February for the opening of a special exhibit of his papers housed there. His last visit to ...

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 ...

Heaney has long been internationally recognised as the greatest Irish poet since WB Yeats A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney's poems have been toasted as "reports from the heart" at a literary "wake" for the late Irish poet and Nobel laureate, bringing together poets, writers, actors, ...

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Earlier this week, the Irish poet Seamus Heaney was laid to rest in his native County Londonderry. The 74-year-old Nobel laureate died in a ...

The revered author passed away in a Dublin hospital. By The Associated Press Seamus Heaney - P 2013 DUBLIN – To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the ...

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 ...

Called by some the best Irish poet since Yeats, Heaney was 74. He was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Heaney once told NPR that poems... Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish ...