For many, the holidays are a time to rekindle connections with family and friends. Sometimes that means thinking about the influences of those we’ve lost. For Atlantic writer Caitlin Flanagan — who ...

The publication of “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” is an occasion to celebrate the Nobel Prize winning poet whose work extends Ireland’s extraordinary literary lineage. Heaney takes his place alongside ...

(AP) 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 the ...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney has won the Truman Capote Award for literary criticism. Heaney, best known as a poet and for his acclaimed translation of ``Beowulf,'' will receive ...

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 ...

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 may have passed away in 2013, but his words live on forever. The iconic poet's team has released a book compiling his best work, including some new poems. We are about to delve even ...

It was an unseasonably warm night, and the upper room of the white clapboard building on Kirkland Street was lit by candles and decorated with a dozen pumpkins ready for carving. The Sanctum, as the ...

DUBLIN (AP) - To all lovers of the perfectly weighed word, Seamus Heaney offered hope on this side of the grave. Heaney, 74, died Friday in Dublin some 18 years after he won the Nobel Prize in ...