Seamus Heaney, Irish Poet and Nobel Prize winner, dead at 74

I had the good fortune to be gifted a copy of his collected poems by a professor...truly life-changing. Check out his work and these retrospectives:
Seamus Heaney, Poet of Soil and Strife, dies at 74 (NY Times)
Heaney's journey into language
Heaney's poems--great, dangerous and healing--live on