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When he reached his 30s, Heaney says he underwent a crucial transformation, moving back to the Irish country and spent four years concentrating solely on his poetry. “That clinched it,” he says, and so he began the long journey that would bring him into international acclaim as a writer and thinker...
...Heaney has been formally affiliated with Harvard since 1982, when he began his fourteen-year tenure as a Visiting Lecturer. The arrangement stipulated that he spend a semester teaching in Cambridge every year...
...Heaney was elected as the Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, an additional honor. The poet dubs his lectures and speeches his “bread and butter as an academic. That’s how I earn my keep,” he says. He often culls essays for volumes of prose from his addresses...
Beyond the classes and the lectures, Heaney has a continuing affection for Harvard’s scholarly atmosphere. The Poet-in-Residence’s affiliation with Adams House has no doubt contributed to its widespread popularity among speculative first-years, and continues what he calls its long “tradition of artistic and intellectual achievement.” Heaney also has a deep appreciation for such classically Cantabridgian landmarks as Sanders Theatre in Memorial Hall...
...After Heaney resigned his teaching position in 1996, then-College President Neil Rudenstine renewed the Ralph Waldo Emerson position in order to preserve a place for Heaney in the bastion of American academia...