Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth century, died in Dublin on Friday at the age of 74. Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who ...

JOE BIDEN HAS wrapped up a more than 50-year political career but promised that “we’re not leaving the fight” as he said farewell to the presidency and flew to California.

Seamus Heaney, one of the major poets of the twentieth century, died in Dublin on Friday at the age of 74. Known in his native Ireland as “Famous Seamus,” Heaney was that rare writer who ...

Read: Seamus Heaney’s journey into darkness The obvious comparison here is with 2007’s Letters of Ted Hughes, also edited by Christopher Reid.

Seamus Heaney is among the most famous and esteemed living poets. His 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature confirmed the image most already had of him, as a towering figure, a grandmaster, an eminence.

NEW YORK —When Seamus Heaney died in August, at 74, he was hailed as a poet of unusual grace and humility, an ambassador for poetry whose reach stretched far beyond the rural Ireland of his most ...

Biden has frequently recited extracts from The Cure at Troy and quoted it during his acceptance speech at the 2020 Democratic National Convention. He posted his latest recital of Heaney's famous ...

“It’s impossible, I think, to like poetry and not like Seamus Heaney,” offers Skinner, who counts Alexander Pope, Robert Frost and Gerard Manley Hopkins among his favourites.