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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...
...Seamus had been contemplating various life changes, including his relationship with Harvard," University spokesperson Debra Bradley Ruder said. "Harvard very much wanted to maintain a continuing relationship with Seamus Heaney...
...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...