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This summer Vendler will be in residence at the school, along with Irish poet Seamus Heaney, John P. Marquand Professor of English Peter Sacks and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham. Vendler calls the institute “a true meeting place for all Yeatsians,” adding, “He was a world poet, and has this appeal to the world...
HELEN VENDLER. Nobel Prize-winner Seamus Heaney has named her “the best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages.” Hard to match for her attention to nuance and breadth of knowledge, Porter University Professor Helen Vendler will read from her most recent work of criticism, Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath—a study of four poets’ first “perfect,” or mature, poems. Friday, April 4, at 3 p.m. Free. Harvard Book Store, 1256 Massachusetts Avenue...
...press is also holding a competition for illustrations that will accompany a poster containing the poem “The Laglan Blackbird” in various translations, including several by visiting scholar and poet Seamus Heaney, who is affiliated with Adams House...
DoubleTake is clearly a labor of love. After reading the 128 pages following the editors’ note in its premiere issue—which contain personalized narratives ranging from a poem by Seamus Heaney to a photoessay of life in the Chicago barrio to impressionistic short stories—even the most skeptical reader would be moved to appreciate its social conscience. In its variety, consistency and precision of editorial expression, DoubleTake is unique. No word goes unillustrated, and no picture unexplained...
...would have been highly inappropriate for Harvard to honor Paulin by allowing him to deliver the Morris Gray Lecture, which has been previously given by such Nobel Prize-winning luminaries as Seamus Heaney and Anthony Hecht. To let Paulin give a distinguished lecture at this University after expressing such an offensive and violent message would inevitably legitimize his hateful rhetoric...