Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets

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.

The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright.