Seamus Heaney's Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966-1996(1) makes it possible to form something like a comprehensive picture of the Irish poet's work. Slowly but unmistakably over the past thirty years, Heaney has emerged as our major English-language poet. The diffidence and caution with which...

The poets Seamus Heaney and Philip Larkin were each other's most notable critics. In his essays and poems, Heaney found difficulty in dealing with the 'spiritual' element incorporated in Larkin's work. Moreover, when he discussed Larkin's work, it was always with a hint of...

Iran is still only operating several hundred centrifuges at its uranium enrichment plant outside the city of Natanz, despite its claims to have activated 3,000 of the devices, the head of the U.N. nuclear watchdog agency said Thursday.Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad announced Monday that the...

Tens of thousands of elementary school-age girls work in Guinea for no pay as household servants in conditions akin to slavery, according to a report released Friday by Human Rights Watch.The girls, some as young as 5 years old, cook, clean, fetch water and care...

In the following essay, Pinsky provides a favorable review of Field Work.