Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers.

Few have used the English language to greater effect than Irish poet Seamus Heaney, who died today in Dublin. He was 74. Heaney was a Nobel laureate and the son of a farmer, a poet reluctantly drawn ...

Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet who died last month, was supposed to have gone to Emory University next February for the opening of a special exhibit of his papers housed there. His last visit to ...

DUBLIN — 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 ...

A new book of Seamus Heaney's work "represents the full arc of his writing life in one place," a Heaney expert has said. A major new volume of the late writer's work brings together his published and ...

To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Advertisement Article continues below this ad Heaney, 74, died Friday in a Dublin hospital some 18 ...

Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney (1939-2013) spent a good part of 40 years teaching in this country, yet he remained an Irishman, having been raised in Northern Ireland and living there as well as in the ...

When I heard that Irish poet Seamus Heaney had passed away, I immediately thought of the one time that I had met him. It was in 1994 in Dublin, a year before he received the Nobel Prize for literature ...

You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Earlier this week, the Irish poet Seamus Heaney was laid to rest in his native County Londonderry. The 74-year-old Nobel laureate died in a ...

Seamus Heaney, the Nobel Prize winning Irish poet, died in Dublin Friday at 74. “The poet and Nobel Laureate died in hospital in Dublin this morning after a short illness,” said a statement released ...

Seamus Heaney, the Irish poet whose verse captured the transcendent power, darkness and humanity of his conflicted homeland, died Thursday at a hospital in Dublin. He was 74. His death was announced ...