The freelance literary life was a precarious one, but he could now be “Seamus” through and through. It would nevertheless be a mistake to assume that politics is the main engine of Heaney’s ...

That was in my twenties, thirties, forties, partly because I was teaching and busy all day and living a full life with the thrilling Heaney household. The house, you see, quietened later at night.

‘The Letters of Seamus Heaney’ Edited by Christopher Reid Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 848 pages An Irish poet who was awarded the Nobel Prize, Seamus Heaney is an elegant and playful correspondent, ...

DUBLIN (Reuters) - Seamus Heaney, one of the world's best-known poets and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature, died on Friday after a short illness at the age of 74, his family said. The ...

With the working title ‘Seamus Heaney: The Music of What Happens,’ the forthcoming documentary will provide a look at the famous Irish poet’s life with contributions from his family, says ...

I had pulled from the shelf the U.K. version of “The Letters of Seamus Heaney,” published by Faber & Faber there in the late spring (and now here by Farrar, Straus and Giroux), 800-plus pages ...

Seamus Heaney’s ‘Journey Into the Wideness of Language’ In addition to his own poetry, Mr. Heaney, who died on Friday, was acclaimed for his translations, including his version of “Beowulf.” ...

Poetry reviewer Tess Taylor has just spent the past semester teaching in Belfast, Ireland. She talks about how Seamus Heaney poems and visions of home swirled in her head.

By Tess Taylor Published May 31, 2017 at 3:31 PM CDT Listen • 2:47 ...