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...expected [Heaney to get the award]...We knew it was coming but we didn't know when," said Haviaris Stratis, a poet and novelist and a friend of Heaney...
...knows a great poet who's as great a human being," Stratis said, "Generous, compassionate, warm--and great drinking company...
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...
...main subject of Heaney's poetry is the religious strife in Northern Ireland. The poet resides in Dublin, usually spending one semester each year teaching at Harvard...
...when he's here that the place feels most alive," said local author Askold Melnyczuk. "He's been a great poet and in his last book he became a missionary...