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Every poetic career follows a different trajectory. Yeats?? style evolved and improved throughout his long career; Wordsworth composed his greatest works in his youth, but continued writing through his old age. The deterioration of poetic talent must be one of the greatest fears of an aging poet. Although Derek Walcott—who turned eighty this past January—is a Nobel Laureate and the author of over twenty published volumes of poetry, the dread of losing his poetic ability permeates “White Egrets,” his newest collection. He writes...
...says President Drew G. Faust, who initiated the creation of the Task Force in Fall 2007. Kayla A. Escobedo ’12—whose acrylic-on-masonite piece “Leda and the Swan” is an abstract, textured interpretation of William Yeats?? poem of the same name—commented on the University’s recent focus on the arts: “I think what President Faust and the College have been doing for the arts is fantastic, and I deeply appreciate the obvious sincerity involved. President Faust showed genuine interest...
...English professor Helen Vendler presented her latest book, “A Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form,” last night in a talk in which she read Yeats poems—at one point breaking into an Irish brogue—and told anecdotes from Yeats?? life to an audience of several hundred...
...point, she imitated Yeats??s reading with an Irish accent...
...continues to this day. “A lot of the work that had been done at the time on Yeats was biographical and historical, and not enough attention had been paid to the poems,” Vendler recalls. Nowhere in many of the most thorough studies of Yeats?? career, Vendler laments, does it mention the poetic structure of his work. “The poets take a lot of pain in not writing prose, so if you ignore the pains they have taken in not writing prose, it seems to be you’re ignoring...