When the editors of “The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry” made Seamus Heaney their star attraction in 1982 with 20 poems—British poetry, please note—they obtained permission from his ...
Seamus Heaney, "acclaimed by many as the best Irish poet since Yeats," has died, the BBC and other news outlets are reporting. Heaney was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Writer and ...
And, in fact, it often seems that our digital communications platforms–best represented by the internet–are a kind of wizardry. The internet allows me to transmit, reproduce, and retrieve meaning ...
(RNS) The disappearance of Irish poet Seamus Heaney — so unexpected and jolting — left a silence and a stilled a pen. There would be no more new words. And yet the poetic embrace he’s left as a legacy ...
When considering an oeuvre as vast as Seamus Heaney's, what correspondences seem to offer is a tantalising glimpse behind the curated persona. Love letters, for instance—as of those between Virginia ...
It’s ordinarily only the famous who first approach a nonfiction book by thumbing through the index, looking for their own name. Unfamous, I nevertheless found myself doing just that this past summer ...
Seamus Heaney, the greatest living English-language poet, turned 70 this week. The Irish, of course, take their poets more seriously than most -- and they take their Nobel laureates, of whom Heaney is ...
Irish poet Seamus Heaney has died in Dublin at the age of 74. He was one of the world's best-known poets. In 1995 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature. We're remembering one of the 20th Century's ...