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...Auditorium in March, Summers was nothing but praiseworthy in his introduction of Helen Vendler, the Porter University professor, whom he called “a remarkable person.” But several humanities professors came away miffed by a comment Summers made in attempting to stress the importance of Vendler??s contributions to literary analysis...
...Vendler??s 30-minute speech, entitled “The Ocean, The Bird, and The Scholar,” was the reprise of a speech she gave last year in Washington D.C. upon receiving the 2004 National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Jefferson Lecture award...
University President Lawrence H. Summers, Dean of the Faculty William C. Kirby and NEH chairman Bruce Cole were among the crowd who filled Fong Auditorium to hear Vendler??s speech...
Afterward, the audience expressed enthusiasm for Vendler??s message...
...meaning of an entire poem or group of poems. “Basically, Professor Vendler is a monumental figure,” Miller says. “It has been said that she has the power to make or break poets’ careers.” Vendler??s invaluable contributions to the careers of contemporary poets Rita Dove and Seamus Heaney are evidence of this. She acknowledges that it is impossible to compare Yeats, one of the monolithic figures of the last two centuries of western literature, to modern poets...