Are great scientists made, or born? Edward O. Wilson - Harvard professor, winner of two Pulitzer Prizes, and preeminent authority on ants - is one of the world's leading evolutionary biologists. He has also been at the center of the nature-vs.-nurture debate that...

They expected the salty scent of fresh young oysters to emerge from the old-fashioned iron dredge they scraped along the bottom of the Chesapeake Bay one night last week near historic Annapolis. Instead, what educators from the Chesapeake Bay Foundation found was a...

"Kinship" and "Funeral Rites," two poems in Seamus Heaney's latest volume North (1975), suggest a theme that recurs in many of his poems, namely, the importance of connection in human experience, the personal and social value of a cultural matrix within which behavior can have intelligibility. (p. 71) Heaney's first two volumes, Death of a Naturalist (1966) and Door into the Dark (1969), are almost totally concerned with farming and domestic life in the rural area o...

Seamus Heaney's reputation for power, resonance, consummate phrasing, striking talent, uncanniness, etc.—which sprang up like a genie with his very first book, Death of a Naturalist …, and which, as the early reviews come in, still looms with tweedy arms crossed above his fifth, Field Work—is astonishing in view of his modest ambition and tone. The Irish, British, and Americans alike have taken turns rubbing the lamp, as if it were indeed Wonderful, and pure gold. But Heaney hims...

In the following review, Greenlaw praises the poetry of Opened Ground, summarizing Heaney's achievements from Death of a Naturalist to the present.