Word: vendler
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Each year, the Society's senior fellows, a group of local professors (nine--including Hubel--are from Harvard, one is from MIT, and one--Helen Vendler--is a visiting professor at Harvard from Boston University), gather to select a batch of eight junior fellows for the society. These eight, according to society literature, must be "persons of exceptional ability, originality, and resourcefulness" in any academic field. Most have completed the course work for their Ph.D.'s, if they have not actually taken the degree...
...other women, Helen H. Vendler and Barbara K. Lewalski, are tenured in the English department but neither teaches English at Harvard full time. Vendler is a visiting professor who divides her teaching duties between Harvard and Boston University and Lewalski is also a professor in the History and Literature department...
...April, modern poetry expert Helen Vendler, professor of English at B.U., accepted an offer to share her time between B.U. and Harvard. She will become a visiting professor of English here in the 1981-82 school year and will alternate semesters between the two schools...
...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), and tosses out literary devices, like Eliot's "objective correlative" with unusual comfort...
With Part Of Nature, Part Of Us, Helen Vendler confirms the idea that writing is as much a process of the critical faculties as the creative. Her reviews of Eliot, Lowell, Merrill, Penn Warren, Auden, Plath, O'Hara and many others are poems in themselves, or at least poetic testimonies to the major poets of our time. Vendler's collection ought to be enduring in the libraries of American literary criticism, not only for its intellectual depth, but its expression of excitement and comprehension...