Ronald Schuchard papers

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Ronald Schuchard papers

1981-2011

https://archives.libraries.emory.edu/repositories/7/resources/3355

The Ronald Schuchard papers primarily consist of materials relating to Ron Schuchard's relationship with Seamus Heaney from 1981-2005, including correspondence, drafts of lectures for the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, writings, printed materials, and photographs. The bulk of the papers consist of correspondence between Heaney and Schuchard (1981-2005) and reflects the planning for the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature at Emory University, which Heaney delivered in 1988 and the friendship between Schuchard and Heaney. Also present in the papers are Seamus Heaney's drafts of the Ellmann Lectures and drafts prepared for the publication of the lectures in The Place of Writing (1989), as well as a small group of printed materials relating to Heaney and a small number of photographs. The collection also includes a bust of T.S. Eliot by Graham High.

2.75 linear feet (7 boxes) (1 oversized papers box (OP); AV Masters: .25 linear feet (1 box))

eng, Latn

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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SNAC Resource ID: 8233361

Emory University. Special Collections and Archives

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Heaney, Seamus, 1939-2013

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Seamus Heaney, poet, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, was born in April 1939, the eldest of nine children. His father owned and worked a small farm in County Derry in Northern Ireland. At the age of twelve he won a scholarship to St. Columb's College, a Catholic boarding school situated in the city of Derry, From 1957 he lived in Belfast, moving in 1972 to the Irish Republic, where he now lives. His poems first came to public attention in the mid-1960s when he was active as one of a gro...

Emory university

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The Baccalaureate service is an inter-religious ceremony for all graduating Emory University students receiving bachelor's degrees and consists of prayers, music, and an address by the Emory University President. The Commencement ceremony includes all Emory University graduates and consists of an address by the commencement speaker, the conferral of honorary degrees and awards, and the conferral of degrees en masse. From the description of Emory University Baccalaureate and Commencem...

Schuchard, Ronald

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Ronald Schuchard is Goodrich C. White Professor of English at Emory University, where he began his career as teacher and scholar in 1969. He completed his graduate work at the University of Texas, Austin, and teaches courses in 20th century British, Irish and Anglophone literature. He is author of numerous studies of modern authors, particularly T.S. Eliot and W.B. Yeats. Schuchard has been a key figure in organizing the Richard Ellmann Lectures in Modern Literature, inaugurated by Seamus Heaney...