Word: heaneys
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...book's epigraph, Kelly quotes Seamus Heaney: "Humans suffer, they torture one another, they get hurt and get hard. No poem of play or song can fully right a wrong inflicted and endured." Indeed, Payback comes to no conclusion, offering no closure in the lives of Billy and Paddy. In one sense, it is very frustrating not to know whether they die or how they choose to live. Yet in the bleak, violent, greedy New York City of 1987, from water tunnels seven hundred feet below the bustle of Broadway to overcrowded bars of Hell's Kitchen, humans suffered...
Their first exposure to the department came when their son took a class in the department in the 80's from Boylston Professor of Rhetoric Seamus Heaney, who later won the Nobel Prize for Literature...
...Heaney's appointment is open-ended, Ruder said...
Although the position created for Heaney is new, poets Robert Frost and Robert Lowell have each held similar posts. Frost held the Ralph Waldo Emerson Fellowship in Poetry from 1939 to 1941, and Lowell was the Ralph Waldo Emerson Lecturer on English Literature from...
...Boylston professorship which Heaney will vacate is one of the University's oldest and most distinguished chairs. The position was first occupied by John Quincy Adams in the early 1800s, and was later held by poets Archibald MacLeish and Robert Fitzgerald...