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Gates said that he would like to see black poet Phillis Wheatley, whom he called “the mother of the African-American literary tradition,” honored on a stamp...
Robert Lowell, one of the most prominent poets of the late 20th century, once called Heaney “the greatest Irish poet since Yeats.” Heaney says the visionary author was himself a necessary informant of his writing. “Yeats is like a mountain range, lying on the horizon. He can’t be emulated; you just walk around under the shade,” he says. Yet in his own work, Heaney has helped bring a good deal of illumination to that immense shadow...
...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...
According to the terms of the position that among others Lowell and Robert Frost previously held, the poet spends six weeks in Cambridge every other year lecturing and giving readings for a University-wide audience...