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Yale will present a formidable challenge despite having lost eight oarswomen to graduation. Peggy Stevens, Radcliffe's number four seat, said yesterday.
Even though the crew didn't row particularly well, Stevens expressed confidence about next week's showdown in Connecticut: "I think we'll get them."
But Vendler's astute perceptions far outdistance such a minor preoccupation with the two poets she knows best. (As well as On Extended Wings, she's also written The Poetry of George Herbert.) Her absorption with Stevens is natural. After all, he is the "host" of Vendler's party, and...
It is given to only a handful of people in each century, in any language, to invent a written voice that sounds like no one else's. All other poets of the century become part of a common music, but the voices of genius live vividly in their oddness and...
But Vendler hears all poets speak, and Part Of Nature, Part Of Us is her attempt to externalize her communion with these poets. She possesses a tremendous facility with words and ideas: she compares poets to artists (Stevens to Cezanne in their similar sense of modern, to name one example...