Seamus Heaney
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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 back at Harvard, on hand from Dublin to read a poem at Morning... Full Article at Harvard Gazette
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one of poetry’s great powers, its ability to open and widen consciousness
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Seamus Heaney (IPA: /ˈʃeɪməs ˈhiːni/) (born 13 April 1939) is an Irish poet, writer and lecturer who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995. He currently lives in Dublin. Full Article At Wikipedia.org
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