At a meeting of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences on Dec. 3, 2024, the following tribute to the life and service of the late Helen Vendler was spread upon the permanent records of the Faculty.
Vendler inspired generations of students at Harvard and beyond with her exquisite sense of poetic form and her swift grasp of what a poet is doing as an artist.
She was also the most gracious and generous of colleagues, delightful in conversation, meticulous and cheerful in curricular deliberations.
No other critic of our time, or indeed, of the past century, has written about poetry with such illuminating power.
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