| Helen Vendler: "Wallace Stevens as an Am. Poet" |
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6:00PM - 7:30PM |
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Because Wallace Stevens appears less "American" than such poets as Frost or Williams, he has been read chiefly as an international modernist or as a poet with European affinities. Helen Vendler, using as examples poems that mention nothing American, will argue that American literary history needs to broaden its concept of what counts as American in American poetry.
Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard in the Department of English.
The Stanford Presidential Lecture Series in the Humanities and Arts brings the most distinguished scholars, artists, and critics of our time to the Stanford University campus for lectures, seminars, panel discussions, and a variety of related interactions with faculty, students, and the community at large. |
| Event Type: Department |
| Location: Humanities Center, Levinthal Hall |
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