Word: heaney
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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...
...very different reception awaited Heaney a few weeks ago when he returned to Harvard and Cambridge, his home-away-from-home. Excited is perhaps too weak a word to describe the elation felt by the University and by Cantabridgians-at-large at Heaney's return to Boston since his departure...
With a name like Seamus Heaney, it has to be good. Or something to that effect. Watch the man/poetry god read from his new book Opened Ground. 8 p.m., Science Center C, Harvard Yard. FREE...
Vendler, who is currently teaching a course titled "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney," said of his work, "It confronts both personal and public affairs with rare honesty and a rare gift...