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Joseph C. Harris (born 1940) [1] is Francis Lee Higginson Research Professor in English and Research Professor of Folklore at Harvard University. [2]
A scholar of Old English, Old Norse, folklore, and mythology, he earned a B.A. from the University of Georgia in 1961, a B.A. from Cambridge University in 1963 (with the support of a Marshall Scholarship), and his Ph.D. from Harvard in 1969 with a dissertation on Old Icelandic literature (The King and the Icelander: a study in the short narrative forms of Old Icelandic prose). [3] He taught at Stanford and Cornell for thirteen years before returning to Harvard in 1985; he retired in 2012. [4]
Some of his major works include Child’s Children: Ballad Study and Its Legacies (ed. with Barbara Hillers, 2012), ‘Speak Useful Words or Say Nothing’: Old Norse Studies by Joseph Harris (2008), [5] and Prosimetrum: Crosscultural Perspectives on Narrative in Prose and Verse (ed. 1997). [6] Author of over 100 scholarly articles, he also contributed to Seamus Heaney's best-selling translation of Beowulf. [7]
His research has been supported by grants from the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Study, [1] the German Academic Exchange Service, the Fulbright Program, the Guggenheim Foundation, [8] the American Council of Learned Societies, [9] the National Endowment for the Humanities, the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, and the Rockefeller Foundation. [4] He is a corresponding fellow of the Royal Gustavus Adolpus Academy, Uppsala, Sweden.
Seamus Justin Heaney was an Irish poet, playwright and translator. He received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. Among his best-known works is Death of a Naturalist (1966), his first major published volume. American poet Robert Lowell described him as "the most important Irish poet since Yeats", and many others, including the academic John Sutherland, have said that he was "the greatest poet of our age". Robert Pinsky has stated that "with his wonderful gift of eye and ear Heaney has the gift of the story-teller." Upon his death in 2013, The Independent described him as "probably the best-known poet in the world".
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District and Circle is a poetry collection by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 2006 and won the 2006 T. S. Eliot Prize, the most prestigious poetry award in the UK. The collection also won the Irish Times "Poetry Now Award".
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Stations is a collection of prose poems by Seamus Heaney, who received the 1995 Nobel Prize in Literature. It was published in 1975.
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