Irish poet Seamus Heaney spent the 1970–71 academic year as a visiting professor at the University of California, Berkeley. He had come from Northern Ireland in the time of the Troubles; he arrived at a campus stirred by anti-war protest. This article explores the impacts of Heaney’s time in Berkeley on his poetry.
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