I qould assume, Barry, that anyone attending a Vendler lecture would be
polite & therefor not out to challenge. I have heard her once, giving a
lecture on Melville's civil war volume of poems, which (as I think I
have mentioend before) she had to fit into her sense of the traditional
lyric even as every word she said about it demonstrated that it was a
kind of pre-serial poem. But we were polite (or I was, & there was no
room for a real question period), & I only mentioned that to some of
the others in the audience afterwards....
I guess you won't be there...?
Doug
On 13-Apr-07, at 4:50 PM, Barry Alpert wrote:
> Against a backdrop of the presentation of quite innovative artists,
> filmmakers, & musicians as well as critical coverage thereof, the
> National
> Gallery of Art embarrasses itself by offering up this series of
> lit-crit
> lectures which doesn't even hint at treatment of the fine arts in its
> attempt to polish the tombs of a dead New England lineage. Whether
> individuals in the audience will challenge Vendler's "taste" remains
> to be
> seen. Barry Alpert
>
>
> The Fifty-sixth A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts 2007
> Last Looks, Last Books: The Binocular Poetry of Death
> Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard
> University
>
> Introduction: Sustaining a Double View
> April 15
>
> Facing the Worst: Wallace Stevens, "The Rock"
> April 22
>
> The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath, "Ariel"
> April 29
>
> Death by Subtraction: Robert Lowell, "Day by Day"
> May 6
>
> Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop, "Geography III"
> May 13
>
> Self-Portraits while Dying: James Merrill, "A Scattering of Salts"
> May 20
>
>
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