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...Heaney will give up his position as Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory, a chair he has held since 1984, to become the first Ralph Waldo Emerson Poet in Residence...
Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney will leave his position as a professor in the English Department after the spring semester to become the poet in residence, Dean of the Faculty Jeremy R. Knowles announced yesterday...
...Heaney will visit Harvard for six weeks every other year, with his first visit planned for the fall of 1998. He will lecture, give readings, serve as a consultant to the Woodberry Poetry Room and work with student poets. The specific capacity in which he will work with students has not yet been determined, according to the Harvard News Office...
...delighted that the long and inspiring association of Seamus Heaney with this Faculty and with our students will be maintained," Knowles said in a press release...
...Heaney, 56, whose poetry addresses the religious strife between Catholics and Protestants in Northern Ireland, was awarded the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature. He was the first Harvard professor ever awarded the literature prize, which carries an award of $1 million...