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Soul or Intelligence destined to possess the sense of Identity.

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With me poetry has been not a purpose, but a passion; and the passions should be held in reverence: they must not — they cannot at will be excited, with an eye to the paltry compensations, or the more paltry commendations, of mankind.
Edgar Allan Poe

Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler

Born: April 30, 1933
Died: April 23, 2024 (aged 90)
Bio: Helen Hennessy Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities.
Known for:
  1. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2015)
  2. Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007)
  3. Poets thinking (2004)
  4. Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)

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