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Tag Archives: Helen Vendler
Animals in poetry, life, death, and Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens’ first poem, chronologically speaking—”Earthy Anecdote”—has always struck me as doing precisely what I gather Helen Vendler ascribes to “The Hermitage at the Center.” “And yet this end and this beginning are one,” Stevens writes in the late poem. … Continue reading
Posted in far-away lands populated by foreigners, Literature, Poetry
Tagged Helen Vendler, poetry, Wallace Stevens
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Updated: Helen Vendler & Wallace Stevens
There’s a top-notch poetry lecture by Helen Vendler that was posted this month in the National Gallery of Art podcast series. The title of the lecture is, “The Binocular Frame,” a reference to the way that certain poets (usually near … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Poetry, Visual art (not incl. cinema)
Tagged Helen Vendler, National Gallery of Art, poetry, Wallace Stevens
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