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Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler says she believes that the impulse to reform is an element of human nature...
...she’s ready. With four lectures on Yeats at Oxford University this summer and a book on Yeats’ poems in the making, Vendler has decided to return to the subject that launched her career...
...first book on Yeats, Vendler focused on a prose essay entitled “A Vision,” comparing it to some of his later plays. Her second time around, she will concentrate solely on the poems...
When she first began writing on Yeats forty years ago, Vendler was disturbed by a trend in Yeatsian scholarship that continues to this day. “A lot of the work that had been done at the time on Yeats was biographical and historical, and not enough attention had been paid to the poems,” Vendler recalls. Nowhere in many of the most thorough studies of Yeats’ career, Vendler laments, does it mention the poetic structure of his work. “The poets take a lot of pain in not writing prose...
...Vendler hopes to offer her readers, if not a new way to evaluate Yeats, at least a new lens through which to look at his poetry. “In the end,” Vendler says, “a critic can’t renew the process. All they can provide is a new way of looking at an old poet.” But she has helped turn criticism into an art form in and of itself...