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...Laureate Robert Pinsky. Harvard also boasts such nationally acclaimed critics as Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler and Fredric Wertham professor Barbara Johnson. And the university's Boylston Professorship of Rhetoric and Oratory, a position often held by practicing poets, is presently occupied by recent Nobel Laureate Seamus Heaney...
However, the Harvard name is extremely alluring; and as a result, the Harvard Faculty has several professors who one seems to see and read everywhere: in bookstores, major magazines, newspapers or the list of Nobel laureates. The superstar professors, so to speak, include: Seamus Heaney, Alan Dershowitz, Helen Vendler, Stephen J. Gould and Henry Louis Gates...
...Heaney, who is away in Ireland on a leave of absence, could not be reached for comment...
...honoree, Heaney can also count himself with literary lions such as Robert Penn Warren, Eudora Welty, John Updike '54 and William Styron...
Members of the English department were excited by the news that Heaney won the award...