Fall is the subject of lyric poetry. One could be forgiven for thinking — in an autumnal mood, the crisp air redolent with fallen leaves, the shortened days of angled light — that fall is the only ...

Irish poet Seamus Heaney, winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1995 and one of the 20th century's greatest poets, has died at age 74. Watch a recording of Mr. Heaney giving a reading of his ...