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Doug, I might sample, if I'm already at the National Gallery of Art for a film. Otherwise, I should say that I've seen her previously in person and have read some of her writing. I remain utterly unconvinced. The only way to stomach a reading of Christmas poetry selected by her and Harold Bloom (which I attended to experience those two directly) was to camp on it. Since there was another occasion in Wash DC during which I witnessed Harold Bloom challenged from the audience (he sputtered and eventually refused to continue), I can imagine Helen Vendler having a similar experience. Why she was chosen to deliver these lectures rather than generative art historians such as Moira Roth or Annette Michelson remains a mystery. Barry On Sat, 14 Apr 2007 08:47:05 -0600, Douglas Barbour <[log in to unmask]> wrote: >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