This programme will explore how different Seamus Heaney’s experience at Oxford was in comparison to his time at Harvard. His five year term as Professor of Poetry was of great significance, made more complex by his own background as a Northern Irish nationalist

In Part 1 of Professor Heaney, we get an insight into the poet’s life at Harvard. His relationship with the university began in 1979 when he spent the spring semester teaching there, with his family.