Word: seamus
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...that poets themselves have ever avoided politics as subject matter. Homer, Dante, Shakespeare, Milton, all found ways to hail or rage against kings and governments through their work. Yeats, unpolitical as anyone could look in his fluffy neckties, wrote stinging political lines. As did Robert Lowell. As does Seamus Heaney. W.H. Auden's September 1, 1939 is a beautiful muddle of a poem on Europe in the shadow of war. Bertolt Brecht's To Posterity, about Germany under the Nazis, is clear as a bell...
...Poet Seamus Heaney, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory, recited a poem and discussed different means of judging literature, including politically and aesthetically...
...honor of the 350th. The showcombines film clips from the Harvard Archives andfresh interviews with some current highereducation notables at Harvard and other Harvardbigwigs such as Harvard President Derek C. Bok,Harvard's Agassiz Professor of Geology Stephen J.Gould and Harvard's Boylston Professor of Oratoryand Rhetoric Seamus Heaney. Happy 350th to Harvardand everyone else and may higher education prosperat Harvard for at least 350 more years...
Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences A. Michael Spence will respond to the public officials' speeches, Jeffrey Rosen '86 will deliver a short undergraduate oration, and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Seamus Heaney, the noted poet, will read a poem he composed for the anniversary celebration...
...deciphering the battle between Argentina and West Germany this weekend for the National Broadcasting Company (NBC) is none other than Seamus P. Malin '62, assistant dean of admissions and financial...