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...search for “Heaney?? on Harvard’s website will yield over 200 hits. You’ll find his essays, translations and poems on dozens of syllabi. And this year, he is the center of at least two courses taught by English faculty: “Beowolf and Seamus Heaney,“ offered by Daniel Donoghue through the Extension School, and “The Poetry of Seamus Heaney,” a junior seminar with Helen Vendler, author of two books about...
...those “long forgotten and suddenly remembered places.” For instance, the foci of his poem “Lightenings,” which became the night’s case study in composition, are the recalled image of a beggar on a threshold, Heaney??s feeling that the world had become “unroofed” after his parents’ deaths and his memories of playing marbles as a child. Mix thoughtfully and voila. “Suddenly you are like a pharoah,” he sweeps his arm slowly...
...Heaney??s last visit to Harvard was in 2000, as a visiting lecturer...
...next seminar will be a reading from Heaney??s works on Oct. 15 and the final seminar will be a lecture on the translation of poetry...