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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries by Helen Vendler
Category: Poetry
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in "The Art of Shakespea ...Show more
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Helen Vendler
Category: Culture | Series: A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent ...Show more
OCEAN THE BIRD & THE SCHOLAR by VENDLER HELEN
Category: Poetry
A Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and o ...Show more
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets by Helen Vendler
Category: Poetry
This text aims to provide a guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but al ...Show more
The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics by Helen Vendler
Category: Poetry
Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics toda ...Show more
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar : Essays on Poets and Poetry by Helen Hennessy Vendler
Category: Reference
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire by Helen Vendler
Category: Poetry
This book tells the reader a good deal more about Wallace Stevens's poetry and Stevens as a poet than many a weighty tome...The shining merit of these lectures is their capacity to elucidate single poems, some familiar anthology pieces, others much less familiar, so that they stand alone as comprehensib ...Show more
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