Literary critic Helen Vendler will speak on “Melville's Civil War Poetry: Epic into Lyric” on Thursday, May 7, at 4:30 p.m. in the Nott Memorial.
Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English and American Literature at Harvard University, will be visiting Union for several days. Designated by Seamus Heaney as “our best reader of poems,” Vendler sits on the committee that annually determines the winners in poetry and fiction of the Pulitzer Prize.
She is author of a dozen books on poets and poetry, her most recent The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets.