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LECTURES By Seamus Heaney 10/13, 10/20, 10/27 (8 p.m. SCC) "Talking Shop": 10/14, 10/21, 10/28 (5:30 p.m. Emerson 105 and SCD) Out there in Jutland, In the old man-killing parishes, I will feel lost, Unhappy, and at home. --Seamus Heaney, "The Tollund...
...famous "bog poems" by Seamus Heaney, Nobel Prize-winning poet and Ralph Waldo Emerson Visiting Poet, agonizes over the problems of place and the mixed emotions of homecoming. Often compared by critics to noted expatriates (and fellow Nobel Laureates) Joseph Brodsky and Czeslaw Milosz, Heaney frequently writes about returning as an outsider to his homeland in Ireland. There he finds a rich heritage of language and myth, subjugated by the fear-driven assimilation of British culture forced upon Ireland with the onset of "The Troubles...
...experience of listening to Seamus Heaney talk about his mastery of the balancing act that is poetry--maneuvering between the private and the public, past and present, political and personal--is matched only by listening to him read his poetry that so wonderfully orchestrates these various forces. At every appearance Heaney read some portion of his work, be it excerpts from or complete versions of poems, portions of his translation of Beowulf or an impromptu reading of probably his most famous poem, "Digging," meeting with thunderous applause. Perhaps Irish consul general Conor O'Riordan said it best when he said...
With a name like Seamus Heaney, it has to be good. Or something to that effect. Watch the man/poetry god read from his new book Opened Ground. 8 p.m., Science Center C, Harvard Yard. FREE...
Vendler, who is currently teaching a course titled "The Poetry of Seamus Heaney," said of his work, "It confronts both personal and public affairs with rare honesty and a rare gift...