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 died this morning, but his poems continue to be very much alive — and in them, he is first and foremost a poet whose poems you feel in your mouth. Pronouncing the words as he describes a ...

It was in "Digging"-- that much-anthologized lyric from his remarkably confident first volume, Death of a Naturalist (1966) -- that the future Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney first caught the timbre ...

The poet Seamus Heaney died Friday. Heaney won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995 and has been described as the "most important Irish poet since Yeats." Heaney was 74 years old. Host Jacki Lyden ...

The poet Tess Taylor left her home in California last winter to spend this semester teaching in Northern Ireland. She says she's felt poetry come to life and is learning about the value of place. TESS ...

Seamus Heaney was possibly the most-read living poet. He was admired by peers and critics and loved by the general public, which bought his books... Poet Seamus Heaney Was A Teacher, Critic, ...