Seamus Heaney in Samuel Pepys's chair, Magdalene College, Cambridge, 1995. Heaney’s own style went through many changes while remaining recognizable across time.

But, for me, the indisputable highlight of that year was being able to sit in on Helen Vendler’s seminar on Seamus Heaney. Like Heaney, the great Irish poet who died Friday at the age of 74 ...

Seamus once began a lecture by thanking his colleague Helen Vendler for her introduction and adding that he always appreciated her truthfulness, especially when she was able to praise him.

In important scholarly studies of classic authors, Ms. Vendler offered fresh interpretations of the 17th-century metaphysical poet George Herbert, Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, the Keats of the ...

In recent years, Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet and Nobel laureate who died on Friday in Dublin, was perhaps best known to the broad academic public as the translator of a hugely successful version ...

For more on Heaney, there’s also Seamus Deane’s Life and Letters, “ The Famous Seamus,” from the issue of March 20, 2000; and Helen Vendler’s “ A Wounded Man Falling Towards Me ...

And it’s no accident that this selection of the best poems from three decades begins with the word “between,” for Heaney was a poet of the in-between (as his friend Helen Vendler has ...

Students, Professors Celebrate Life of Seamus Heaney | News | The Harvard CrimsonKeir D. GoGwilt, a postgraduate fellow, plays a song during Seamus J. Heaney’s memorial service at Memorial ...

Heaney went for the latter. In a conversation I recorded at his Dublin home for a newspaper article in 2006, he put the two together. “The very fact that you were called ‘Seamus’ on the back ...

Seamus Heaney’s collection North turns 50 next month, but does it still have relevance for today’s readers and critics? In advance of a major conference to mark the milestone at Queen‘s ...

Harvard colleague Helen Vendler, an early reader of Heaney’s work and whose friendship had started when they had first met at The Yeats Summer School in Ireland.