Seamus Heaney was a visionary bulwark against small-mindedness. When the Irish poet died suddenly in 2013, at age 74, a benign literary presence was robbed from us. The posthumous publication of his ...
Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. Seamus Heaney’s ambition as an artist was balanced by a cool sense of ...
DUBLIN — On a December day seven years ago, the poet Seamus Heaney drove up to the back door of the National Library of Ireland, his car packed with 12 boxes from the attic. The haul was more than ...