Renowned literary critic Helen Vendler will give the Percy Graeme Turnbull Memorial Lecture for spring 2005. Titled "The Yeatsian Sequence: Forms of Poetry in 'Nineteen Hundred and Nineteen,'" the lecture will take place at 5:30 p.m. on Thursday, Feb. 10, in 110 Maryland Hall, Homewood campus.

Attendees are asked to familiarize themselves with the poem and have a copy in hand. It can be found on the Writing Seminars' Web site at www.jhu.edu/writsem/turnbull/vendler.htm.

Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, is the author of numerous books of poetry criticism, including Soul Says, The Music That Happens, The Breaking of Style, The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, On Extended Wings, The Given and the Made and, most recently, Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats.

The Turnbull Lectures, given through the generosity of a gift made in 1889 in memory of Percy Graeme Turnbull (1878-87), have brought to Homewood some of the most distinguished voices in American poetry and criticism, including Robert Frost, T.S. Eliot, Marianne Moore, W.H. Auden, Charles Eliot Norton, R.P. Blackmur, Northrop Frye, W.S. Merwin and Harold Bloom.

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