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The Given and the Made : Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
The Given and the Made Strategies of Poetic Redefinition Author:Helen Vendler 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. To explore how a poet repeatedly makes art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate, Helen Vendler looks at the work of four Ame... more »rican poets--Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Rita Dove and Jorie Graham--and suggests a new way of understanding poetic strategies.« less