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...Vendler, who has written widely about poetry and memorized all of Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, said that she will use the prominent forum in May to argue that the study of humanities should be centered on the arts, instead of the traditional focus on history and philosophy...
...every person who has read the Platonic dialogues, probably 50 have seen a Greek statue,” Vendler said. “By and large, people tend to think about the past more in terms of art and music, rather than history...
...Vendler said that, although she is going to speak about the centrality of the arts within the humanities, her own work is not as central to the humanities as are creative works themselves...
...Vendler also said that the study of the arts is a relatively new phenomenon in American academia...
...have such a short aesthetic history here,” Vendler said. “America has always had a deep suspicion of arts...