“Noted poetry critic and English professor Helen Vendler presented her latest book, ‘A Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form,’ last night in a talk in which she read Yeats poems—at one point breaking into an Irish brogue—and told anecdotes from Yeats’ life to an audience of several hundred.
Vendler was introduced to the Sackler Auditorium crowd by Homi K. Bhabha—the head of the Humanities Center at Harvard—who said that Vendler’s ‘critical presence draws together rare moments of insight and instruction that renew the life of the poem.’
‘She is a deep friend to the poets she writes about,’ Bhabha said.”
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