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 ...

Henry Hart, the Hickman professor of English and humanities at William & Mary, a former poet laureate of Virginia and the noted author of several literary biographies, has written a second book about ...

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 ...