Word: heaneys
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Harvard's already impressive list of 34 Nobel Laureates grew by one more yesterday with the awarding of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory...
...Heaney is the first Harvard Professor ever to win the Nobel Prize in Literature and the first Harvard faculty member to receive the prize since...
...Heaney will teach two creative writing classes at Harvard this spring: English Sbr: "The Practice of Poetry" and English 161w: "Irish Poetry Since Yeats...
...Seamus Heaney is one of the great poets of our century. He has written verse that is moving, always complex and yet powerful in its simplicity--'so pellucid it can never be muddied,' to borrow one of his lines," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a press release yesterday. "Harvard has long been fortunate to have Seamus Heaney on its faculty, and the entire Harvard community joins with his admirers around the world in congratulating...
Speaking on behalf of the selection panel, Heaney said: "Heather McHugh is one of poetry's artful dodgers, impatient with adequacy, as reckless as she is intelligent...