In time, our classmate made a bashful reappearance, but by then Vendler had begun her lesson on 'Crossing Brooklyn Ferry' and delivered a crucial message: the study of poetry and the living of life weren't separate but a single way of being.
There is no exaggeration in calling her the most influential American poetry scholar of the past fifty years. She was as brilliant at illuminating the old as at championing the new.
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