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Ozick's article has provoked enormous debate among poets and scholars. "I think it's going to be one of those big articles that people talk about in the little corner of the world occupied by English professors and poets," says Judith Baumel...
...addition to these critical comments, Ozick's article also has received some positive reviews. Baumel agrees with Ozick's charges that Eliot was anti-Semitic, and Wayne Koestenbaum '80 calls the article a sad but "beautiful" piece by someone who understands the reasons for Eliot's fall, but at the same time longs to be back in the era when the poet was king...
...example, Fitzgerald's famous class in versification was instrumental in giving the young poets a grounding in form and structure, says Judith Baumel...
...Baumel, Wayne Koestenbaum '80, Jacqueline F. Osherow '78 and Cynthia Zarin '81 were among the 12 artists invited by Penelope Laurans, Fitzgerald's widow, to participate last year in a reading of the works of those who had studied under her late husband...
...Baumel also feels "looked down upon" by other English professors. She said that the people in Option III are "just as good, and I think better, academics than others in the English Department." She related a story about a fellow English major who, upon meeting her and learning she was in Option III, immediately launched into a "tirade about how we shouldn't graduate because we don't do anything...