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Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats AUTH-14088151 my favorite image is ofPoetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler