Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995 and one of the 20th century's greatest poets, has died at age 74. Watch a recording of Mr. Heaney giving a reading of his ...

Seamus Heaney’s Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 [1] makes it possible to form something like a comprehensive picture of the Irish poet’s work. Slowly but unmistakably over the past thirty ...

Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. By ...

In Station Island, Seamus Heaney continues his personal struggle with the meaning of the Irish past and the relation of poetry to poitics. Last summer, I went to Ireland to talk with Seamus Heaney at ...