Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats
poem "Among School Children". View her insightful and passionate
analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the
course. To know the poetry of our time, to look through its lenses
and filters, is to see our lives illuminated. In these eloquent
essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler
shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by
some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of
poetry, Vendler explains its power; it is, she says, the voice of
the soul rather than the socially marked self speaking directly to
us through the stylization of verse. "Soul Says," the title of a
poem by Jorie Graham, is thus the name of this collection. In
essays on Seamus Heaney, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, John
Ashbery, Rita Dove, Jorie Graham, and others, Vendler makes
difficult poetry accessible. She reveals the idiosyncratic nature
of lyric form, and points out the artistic choices present in even
the simplest texts. Vendler examines the use of abstraction in
lyric poems; considers what readers seek and receive from verse;
describes the role of such stylistic devices as compression,
structural dynamics, and syntactic ordering; and renders a wide
variety of poetic styles meaningful. Through her perceptive eyes we
see how lyric poetry, speaking with natural musicality and rhythm,
can by arrangement, pacing, metaphor, and tone create symbol from
fact-and fill us with new understanding. In these direct and
engaged commentaries, she explores the force, beauty, and
intellectual complexity of contemporary lyric verse.
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