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This weekend Harvard Art Museums will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Fogg beginning with an evening of poetry at Memorial Church featuring Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney. The event is free and open to the public. For more information call...
PEOPLE SUPPOSEDLY IN THE KNOW have been saying for years that Irish poet Seamus Heaney would one day win the Nobel Prize for Literature. Of course, people said the same thing about Vladimir Nabokov, Jorge Luis Borges and Graham Greene, illustrious authors and notorious nonwinners. Against that background, the Swedish Academy's selection of Heaney, announced last week, qualifies as something of a surprise: the laurel went to someone widely seen as deserving...
Harvard's already impressive list of 34 Nobel Laureates grew by one more yesterday with the awarding of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature to Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and Boylston professor of rhetoric and oratory...
...Seamus Heaney is one of the great poets of our century. He has written verse that is moving, always complex and yet powerful in its simplicity--'so pellucid it can never be muddied,' to borrow one of his lines," President Neil L. Rudenstine said in a press release yesterday. "Harvard has long been fortunate to have Seamus Heaney on its faculty, and the entire Harvard community joins with his admirers around the world in congratulating...
...course, one benefit of living in a house is virtually unlimited expert babysitting," says Tim Markey, a resident tutor in Lowell House, who is raising Claudia, 3 1/2, and Seamus, six months, with his wife Lorraine...