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...Vendler marveled at how Yeats could depict violence and horror without taking sides...
...poetry offered a “point of view that’s larger than any faction,” Vendler said. “His poems came out as national statements.” She added that his ambivalence did not please everyone. “The poetry,” she said, “was not an unqualified piece of propaganda...
...Vendler is a Yeats scholar—she even wrote her dissertation on him—but she said that Foster’s biography had a lot to teach her about the supernatural element to Yeats’ late life and works...
...Vendler said that Yeats wanted a “symbolic reservoir” beyond mythology or Christianity to find alternative ways of thinking; taking a page from the philosophy of William Blake: “I must create my own System, or be enslaved by another man’s.” Vendler also discussed how Yeats turned his own experience with old age into a “new phase of themes” in his late works. “He was 74 years old, dying from about five different things,” Vendler explained, recalling...
...Vendler noted that Yeats dictated his last two poems to his wife while literally lying on his deathbed. The works were published only weeks prior to his death...