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

We're remembering one of the 20th Century's most important poets this morning. Seamus Heaney died today in a Dublin hospital. The poet often wrote about Northern Ireland and his upbringing there. He ...

On the letters & translations of Seamus Heaney. In “The Impact of Translation” (included in The Government of the Tongue), Heaney recalls Stephen Dedalus’s quip, in Joyce’s Portrait of the Artist, ...

For many, the holidays are a time to rekindle connections with family and friends. Sometimes that means thinking about the influences of those we’ve lost. For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Nobel Prize-winning Irish poet Seamus Heaney won the David Cohen Prize for Literature on Wednesday for what the chair of judges called "the self-renewing force of his writing." The ...

This article was originally on a blog post platform and may be missing photos, graphics or links. See About archive blog posts. Among the more unexpected appearances by Seamus Heaney in the last year ...

What is the opposite of poetry? What slows the spark and puts sludge in the veins? What deadens the language? What rears up before you with livid and stupefying power—in the middle of the night, in ...

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 ...

(AP) 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 the ...