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Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet and Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, widely acknowledged as one of the world’s greatest living poets, has an over 20-year-long relationship with the University...
...Heaney” on Harvard’s website will yield over 200 hits. You’ll find his essays, translations and poems on dozens of syllabi. And this year, he is the center of at least two courses taught by English faculty: “Beowolf and Seamus Heaney,“ offered by Daniel Donoghue through the Extension School, and “The Poetry of Seamus Heaney,” a junior seminar with Helen Vendler, author of two books about...
Nobel Laureate and Emerson Poet-in-Residence Seamus Heaney offered insights on how poetry is composed last night to a standing-room-only Jefferson Hall audience of students, faculty and the public...
What artistic endeavor reaps such a reward? “Well, I remember being naked,” Nash declares as if the statement were a perfect sequitur. “I adapted ‘The Frenzies of Sweeny’ from the long poem by Seamus Heaney. At the end of the performance I was naked in the bottom of the Adams House Pool, on top of a pedestal, illuminated from beneath.” Nash pauses and lets out an amused sigh. “I look up and see my mother, Seamus Heaney and my father...
...charming character in the book, later attached to the writer as a joke or compliment that stuck. Shikibu is the name of an office the character's father once held.) The English-language equivalent for the general linguistic distance would be something like Beowulf, recently translated by Seamus Heaney, but the very comparison also points up the difference. The Tale of Genji depicts no guttural warriors and marauding dragons, but only the eternity of desire and the fading of youth. When characters wish to express their deepest thoughts, they exchange poems, paying consummate attention to every detail of presentation: calligraphy...