Seamus Heaney: "Meskipun Helen Vendler tidak di fakultas Harvard ketik...

"Meskipun Helen Vendler tidak di fakultas Harvard ketika saya datang pertama kali pada tahun 1979, dia adalah roh penjaga; Robert Fitzgerald memberi saya penggunaan studinya di Perpustakaan Pusey. Monroe dan Brenda Engel tetap open house, Bob dan Jana Kiely membuatku di rumah di Adams House. Kemudian, juga, pada tahun 1979, Frank Bidart, yang saya jumpai di Dublin setelah kematian Robert Lowell, dia sudah berakhir melihat Caroline Blackwood Frank membawa saya ke dalam lingkaran teman-temannya, termasuk Robert Pinsky dan Alan Williamson."

--- Seamus Heaney

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Even though Helen Vendler wasn't on the Harvard faculty when I came first in 1979, she was a guardian spirit; Robert Fitzgerald gave me the use of his study in Pusey Library. Monroe and Brenda Engel kept open house, Bob and Jana Kiely made me at home in Adams House. Then, too, in 1979, Frank Bidart, whom Id met in Dublin after the death of Robert Lowell he was over seeing Caroline Blackwood Frank brought me into his circle of friends, including Robert Pinsky and Alan Williamson.