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Thursday's invitational welcomed varsity teams from Emerson and Wentworth Colleges, but the Crimson women were not gracious hosts. Led by their founders, they punished their guests mercilessly, winning 6-0 against both teams. The Crimson did not lose a set the whole event and Oreskovich and Jervis dropped a combined ten games between them. In fact, Oreskovich needed just an hour and fifteen minutes to dispose of two opponents...
Being a big fan of Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence Seamus Heaney, I spent much of the past three weeks hopping from lectures and readings by him to discussions about him. It was wonderful to hear him read aloud some of those poems I had only rehearsed in my head, but it was as wonderful to hear lines from his new translation of Beowulf. His wry running commentary--that the genre demanded the heroic "Charlton Heston or Clint Eastwood bit" or that he pictured the monster Grendel as a sort of "reeking dog-breath in the dark"--helped...
LECTURES By Seamus Heaney 10/13, 10/20, 10/27 (8 p.m. SCC) "Talking Shop": 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 (5:30 p.m. Emerson 105 and SCD) Out there in Jutland, In the old man-killing parishes, I will feel lost, Unhappy, and at home. --Seamus Heaney, "The Tollund...
...famous "bog poems" by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, agonizes over the problems of place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...
While in town, Heaney also fulfilled his duties as Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet by giving several lectures about, and readings from, Opened Ground and Beowulf. Heaney is known for his humorous, warm and gentle spirit, a spirit than infuses even the most violent and political of his poems, and also for his tendency to avoid the "celebrity poet" spotlight. (In fact, he was in the Greek islands when the Nobel Prize announcement was made.) This came across in Heaney's three lectures and three "talking shop" sessions (informal talk-cum-question-and-answer sessions), in which the always-congenial...