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...core course is called ”Poems, Poets, Poetry.” But it’s not just Harvard students who associate her with these words: for the literary world, A. Kingsley University Professor of English Helen Vendler means poetry. Poets hope she will sit up and take notice of their work; the criticism she has written on both living and dead bards has become a canon...
...Vendler published her PhD thesis on the Irish writer William Butler Yeats in 1960, a work that she would turn into her first book three years later. Even as a budding scholar, however, she had to admit to herself that she wasn’t ready to tackle Yeats’ poetry. “I felt I was too young to write about the poems, which were so great,” Vendler says...
...Vendler will deliver her government-sponsored lecture on May 6 in Washington...
This suspicion, Vendler explained, is responsible for the lack of arts education in U.S. schools even today...
...Vendler said America’s refusal to teach the arts could undermine attempts to study the humanities fields that surround...