Seamus Heaney, Nobel laureate in literature, poet, translator and essayist, will be a guest of the series at 黑料不打烊 on Tuesday, April 13.
Heaney will read from his work and share anecdotes and experiences in 鈥淪elected Poems and Preoccupations,鈥 beginning at 7:30 p.m. in Hendricks Chapel. The event is free and open to the public. A sign language interpreter and CART will be available during the lecture, and reduced-rate parking will be available in the Irving Garage. Campus dining centers will offer an Irish dinner on Thursday, April 8, in honor of Heaney鈥檚 visit.
The lecture is co-sponsored by the 黑料不打烊 Humanities Center.
The winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1995, Heaney has been called the most important Irish poet since William Butler Yeats. His writing career began at Queen鈥檚 University in Belfast, where he published work in the university magazines under the pseudonym Incertus.
Heaney co-founded Field Day Publishing in 1983. He taught and served as a department head at Carysfort College in Dublin and was, at various stages in his career, a visiting professor, Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory and the Ralph Waldo Emerson Writer-In-Residence at Harvard University. He was Professor of Poetry at Oxford University from 1989-94.
Heaney鈥檚 most recent publications include a translation of 鈥淏eowulf鈥 (W.W. Norton & Co., 2000), 鈥淥pened Ground鈥 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 1998), 鈥淓lectric Light鈥 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2001) and 鈥淔inders Keepers: Selected Prose 1971-2001鈥 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 2003), a collection of essays. His newest collection of poetry, 鈥淒istrict and Circle鈥 (Farrar, Straus & Giroux), was published in 2006. This year, Farrar, Straus and Giroux published 鈥淪tepping Stones: Interviews with Seamus Heaney鈥 by Dennis O鈥橠riscoll.
Now in its ninth season, University Lectures is a cross-disciplinary lecture series that brings to the University individuals of exceptional accomplishment. The series is supported by the generosity of the University鈥檚 trustees, alumni and friends. The lectures are free and open to the public.
The last lecture in the 2009-10 season will be given by world-renowned photographer and documentarian Annie Leibovitz on April 29.
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