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...staid world of poetry, where words can be weapons, two of its biggest guns appear to have engaged in battle. Porter University Professor Helen Vendler has challenged Alice Quinn, The New Yorker’s poetry editor, over her release of previously unpublished poetry by Elizabeth Bishop, calling the manner of Quinn’s editing and publication “reprehensible.” According to The New York Times, Vendler’s scathing review of “Edgar Allan Poe & The Juke-Box: Uncollected Poems, Drafts and Fragments” in the April 3 issue...
...hours a week. This disconnect is not the fault of conservatism, or anti-semitism; it has to do with a lack of communication. Most students have not perused the collection of essays on general education penned by professors Harvey C. Mansfield Jr. ’53, Helen Vendler, Stanley H. Hoffman, Richard F. Thomas, and others, offering insight into the thought process that supposedly guides the HCCR (and why should they have? They’re hidden away on the Facutly of Arts and Sciences website). It’s too bad the ideas in these essays have not translated...
...interview with a representative for the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2004, Vendler defended the role of art and literary critics as supporters and promoters of cultural patrimony...
These poets “aim to establish in the reader’s imagination a more admirable ethics of relation, one more desirable than can be found at present on the earth,” Vendler writes in her concluding remarks. “Intimacy with the invisible is an intimacy with hope...
Invisible Listeners By Helen Vendler Princeton University Press...