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...Helen Vendler - A. Kingsley Porter University Professor
...Professor of English Helen Vendler: you recently mentioned that modern poets, unlike poets in the past, have no afterlife in which to place themselves or a journey to look forward to. How does this affect their takes on life, as well as death...
...said. “Simon Armitage was amazing, brilliant, and hilarious.” Armitage is the vice president of the Poetry Society and a senior lecturer at Manchester Metropolitan University, He has been described by Harvard English Professor and leading American poetry critic Helen Vendler as “a narrative poet in lyric dress, or a lyric poet in narrative dress.” The event was sponsored by the Harvard English Department. —Staff writer Manning Ding can be reached at ding3@fas.harvard.edu...
...This very focus on consciousness and the process of thinking, however, has won him a reputation as a “difficult” poet. Helen Vendler once likened the experience of reading Ashbery to “playing hide-and-seek in a sprawling mansion designed by M. C. Escher.” One of his early collections in particular, 1962’s “The Tennis Court Oath,” has garnered criticism for its fragmentation, lack of punctuation, and seeming disregard for narrative...
...courses, which will have equivalents under the current curriculum. Donoghue said that non-concentrators and underclassmen may be allowed to take common-ground, but that it is not clear. He said that one possible course, “English Lyrics,” proposed by English Professor Helen H. Vendler, would cover Shakespeare, Herbert, Wordsworth and Keats...