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

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

In his native Ireland, he's known as "Famous Seamus," and indeed, Seamus Heaney -- winner of the Nobel Prize in 1995 -- is a world-famous poet. Now 72, his new collection, "Human Chain," contains ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize winner and one of the most famous, and finest, poets writing in English, died in August 2013. BBC Radio 4 is marking this with Four Sides of Seamus Heaney, four programmes, ...

A framed, typed manuscript of a famous poem by the late Seamus Heaney hangs by the desk of Professor of Psychology Georgia Nigro in her Pettengill Hall office. At the bottom is a handwritten note: “To ...

Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has died, the BBC and other news outlets are reporting. Heaney was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writer and ...

McCrae has been exploring the afterlife in his poetry for several years now, and here his reimagining of Dante’s Inferno is ...