Helen Vendler on Robert Lowell and the Modern Legacy
October 22nd
6pm
Fullerton Hall
Art Institute of Chicago
111 South Michigan Avenue
Free admission
Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard, discusses the poet Robert Lowell at the end of his career, when he viewed great American modernists Pound, Eliot, Frost, Tate, Crane, and Williams no longer as intimidating predecessors but as fellow human beings. A booksigning follows the talk.
Sponsored by The Poetry Foundation and the Art Institute of Chicago
