Part of Nature, Part of Us

Join poetry professor Helen Vendler as she analyzes the poem “Among School Children” by William Butler Yeats. Watch as she passionately explains and reads through the lines, with helpful commentary! The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright.