This article is a Cover Story selection, a weekly feature highlighting the top picks from the editors of America Media. There will soon be a huge volume of collected Poems of Seamus Heaney (1,100 ...
The Letters of Seamus Heaney, edited by Christopher Reid. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 848 pages. $45. This buoyant anvil of a book has brought me to the edge of a nervous breakdown. Night after night I ...
“Henry Hart’s new book, ‘Seamus Heaney’s Gifts,’ should be unignorable for any future writer on Seamus Heaney and will be of genuine help to all who try to take an overview of his work,” according to ...
Reading recommendations from critics and editors at The New York Times. Even the previously uncollected work in “The Poems of Seamus Heaney” shows a master craftsman in full control of his powers. By ...
In Station Island, Seamus Heaney continues his personal struggle with the meaning of the Irish past and the relation of poetry to poitics. Last summer, I went to Ireland to talk with Seamus Heaney at ...
National Catholic Register: Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s Poetry Formed by Sacraments and the Soil of Ireland
On the 40th anniversary of Irish poet Seamus Heaney’s Nobel prize, Cambridge University Press has published Seamus Heaney and Catholicism, an in-depth study by Irish writer Gary Wade examining the ...
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney’s Poetry Formed by Sacraments and the Soil of Ireland
The New York Times: This 1,200-Page Poetry Book Affirms Seamus Heaney’s Towering Genius
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 ...