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Heaney ‘catches the heart off guard’

Over the years, readings by poet Seamus Heaney have been so wildly popular that his fans are called “Heaneyboppers.” A reading this week at Sanders Theatre, sponsored by Harvard’s Department of...

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Breaking the sonnet barrier

“You’re just like every toad I’ve ever met,” / said the Princess to her smooth companion. / “Except maybe more persistent,” she thought / quietly. “I’m still not sure why a person like me should...

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Voices from the trees

“I’m a bad influence,” Microsoft CEO and philanthropist Bill Gates told a crowd of graduating Harvard students in 2007. The speech, delivered before a boisterous Commencement crowd, and recorded for...

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Literary Luminaries

James R. Russell Mashtots Professor of Armenian Studies, Faculty of Arts and Sciences For many years, I taught a House seminar on Vladimir Nabokov, and another on great alienated Cambridge writers...

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Harvard, then and now

In his poem “Little Gidding,” T.S. Eliot, Class of 1909, wasn’t talking about Harvard when he wrote “We shall not cease from exploration / And the end of all our exploring / Will be to arrive where we...

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Seamus Heaney, set to music

Seamus Heaney, a Nobel Prize laureate in literature with a long connection to Harvard, will read his 1986 “Villanelle for an Anniversary” at this year’s Commencement ceremonies. The reading — during...

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A poem for Harvard

Seamus Heaney was awarded the Nobel Prize in literature in 1995. He was teaching at Harvard that year, as he had been, one way or another, since 1979. Today — bluff and kind and 73 — Heaney will be...

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Lessons that lead toward peace

At the Harvard Divinity School’s (HDS) convocation Thursday, new Dean David Hempton drew on the memory of violence he has witnessed to offer hopeful visions for the future. During a moving keynote...

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Admissions, beyond a single test

In a few days, Harvard College will send out invitations to its newest prospective freshmen. Those emails, calls, and letters cap an arduous three-month, 40-person review of applicants — a record...

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‘Beowulf,’ as it was told

Looking for a little excitement? How about spending the afternoon with a couple of hungry monsters, one fuming dragon, and a fearless warrior ready to face all three? Members of the Harvard community...

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Heaney’s death caught ‘the heart off guard’

When a famed poet dies, words come tumbling to mind. For the many members of the Harvard community who knew Irish poet Seamus Heaney, the 1995 Nobel laureate in literature who died Friday, the news of...

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‘Let us begin again’

Harvard President Drew Faust opened the first day of fall classes Tuesday by welcoming students and faculty during the traditional Morning Prayers session held in Appleton Chapel at the Memorial...

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A poet’s own epitaphs

In late August, the world lost poet Seamus Heaney, who died in his native Ireland at age 74. Harvard also lost this modest, tender, ebullient man who first arrived to teach in 1979, setting off a...

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Going forward, a look back

June 2013 Legendary crew coach Harry Parker, who joined Harvard in 1960 and helmed the Crimson’s heavyweight program starting 50 years ago, dies June 25 at the age of 77 after mentoring generations of...

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Remembering, and returning to, Selma

Harvard President Drew Faust delivered Morning Prayers on Friday, offering the intimate crowd in Appleton Chapel some deeply personal and pointed reflections on her experience with the Civil Rights...

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Honoring, and feeling, Heaney’s presence

When Seamus Heaney won the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature he was traveling in Greece, but that didn’t stop him from dialing his extended Harvard family thousands of miles away. Soon after hearing the...

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Poetic wandering

April is National Poetry Month, though at Harvard every month could be. The University’s poetic legacy dates back hundreds of years and has helped shape the world’s literary canon. E.E. Cummings, John...

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A monstrous passion

This article is part of a series on the impact of humanities studies in and out of the classroom. Through dead languages, Charles Hyman ’18 has found intellectual life. In his deep study of Latin,...

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Poet Tracy K. Smith ’94 accepts Harvard Arts Medal

Some of the most important time in Tracy K. Smith’s life was spent in the armchairs of Lamont Library. During a tumultuous first year at Harvard College following the death of her mother, Smith found...

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Kevin Young ’92 discusses new role as museum director

An endless curiosity and love of words are central to the life and work of Kevin Young ’92, poet, author, poetry editor at The New Yorker, and newly named director of the Smithsonian’s National Museum...

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Tracy K. Smith reflects on her new faculty role at Harvard

Tracy K. Smith arrived at Harvard in 1990 as a teenage undergraduate, unsure of her creative path and wary of the onset of adult life. Adjusting to life away from home in California and dealing with...

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Cambridge, city of poets

A spirit moves, John Harvard walks the yard, The books stand open and the gates unbarred — Seamus Heaney, “Villanelle for an Anniversary” Cambridge and poetry have a special relationship. On seemingly...

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