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 ...

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 real subject of lyric poetry.