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...National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) announced yesterday that Porter University Professor Helen H. Vendler will deliver the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, the federal government’s highest honor for intellectual achievement in the discipline...
DECEMBER 1984: Helen Vendler, currently the only professor over age 70, accepts tenure at Harvard...
Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, who, at age 70, is the only female professor above the former retirement age, still attracts hundreds of applicants to her various poetry seminars...
...Vendler—a past director of the program—describes as a two-week long “whirlwind of activity,” featuring twenty lectures in two weeks, seminars each afternoon, trips around the Yeats’ countryside, and production of Yeats’ plays. Vendler is fond of the program, which attracts a wide variety of participants, from 17-year-old students to retired professors from all over the world...
This summer Vendler will be in residence at the school, along with Irish poet Seamus Heaney, John P. Marquand Professor of English Peter Sacks and Boylston Professor of Rhetoric and Oratory Jorie Graham. Vendler calls the institute “a true meeting place for all Yeatsians,” adding, “He was a world poet, and has this appeal to the world...