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...Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, also a visiting BU professor of English at Harvard at the time, says that she largely remembered the incident only insofar as the Times had reported...
...leaping light for your delight discovers,” and then explained how the repeated syllable brings back the preternatural delight a baby takes in repeating newly learned sounds, such as “la la la la.” Kingsley University Professor Helen Vendler, who met Abrams in 1960 after becoming a section leader for his introductory English class at Cornell, explained how influential the nonagenarian’s work has been to literary critics and listed former students of Abrams who have become important literary critics themselves, such as Yale’s Sterling Professor of Humanities...
...support of her argument, she quotes Marianne Moore’s “England” in saying that excellence “has never been confined to a single locality.” Vendler says that Emily Dickinson and Walt Whitman became two of the greatest American poets of the 19th century despite not having college degrees...
...There is no particular reason that any university should be the nurse of poets right now,” she said. “Anywhere there is a library there will be poets.” Vendler notes that even William Butler Yeats never went to university but rather educated himself at the British Library...
...Vendler agrees that there are aspects unique to Harvard which encourage richness in poetry and literary culture. Harvard still teaches the full range of English literature, which has been scaled down at other Universities in favor of American or World literature. And Harvard has a very strong tradition in classics which underpins even more recent genres...