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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry

Helen Vendler

One of our foremost commentators examines the work of a broad range of English, Irish, and American poets. Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews, and occasional prose from the past two…

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Stevens: Poems: Selected by Helen Vendler

Wallace Stevens

These Everyman’s Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price which do not compromise content. Poems: Stevens contains a selection, chosen by Helen Vendler…

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Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

Helen Vendler

What impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy? This book argues that such poets must invent the language that will…

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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

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. This title focuses…

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Seamus Heaney

Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler presents a concise assessment of the life and work of popular poet Seamus Heaney, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1995.

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Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries

Helen Vendler

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised the author as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. In this title, she turns her…

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The Odes of John Keats

Helen Vendler

Vendler offers a new assessment of the six great odes of Keats and in the process gives us, implicitly, a reading of Keats’s whole career. She proposes that these poems…

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On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems

Helen Vendler

Though Wallace Stevens’ shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consideration. She proposes that Stevens development as…

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Helen Vendler

In commentaries on Shakespeare’s 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals features of the poems, pointing out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the…

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Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets

Helen Vendler

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…

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Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire

Helen Vendler

In this book Vendler brings her remarkable skills to bear on a number of Stevens’s short poems. She shows us that this most intellectual of poets is in fact the…

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Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

Helen Vendler

The author uses examples from John Milton, John Keats, T.S. Eliot and Sylvia Plath, to show what makes a great poem.

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Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

Helen Vendler

Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, yet Vendler argues that all poets of value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume-Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, and Yeats-come…

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Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form

Helen Vendler

According to Yeats, rhetoric is the expression of one’s quarrels with others, while poetry is the expression (and sometimes the resolution) of one’s quarrel with oneself. This is where Vendler…

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The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham

Helen Vendler

Vendler’s masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet’s work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what…

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The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics

Helen Vendler

Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and…

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Soul Says: On Recent Poetry

Helen Vendler

In these essays on American, British, and Irish poetry, Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. Vendler explains the…

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Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler

Helen Vendler may be America’s most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy.This title features some…

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The Poetry of George Herbert

Helen Vendler (Harvard University)

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The Prelude

William Wordsworth

A gorgeous new edition of the definitive text of Wordsworth's The Prelude, with full-color contemporaneous illustrations that illuminate this epic poem. With a new afterword by Helen Vendler.

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The Sonnets and Narrative Poems of William Shakespeare: Introduction by Helen Vendler

William Shakespeare,Sylvan Barnet

Includes the bard’s complete lyrical verse and an introduction by a noted Shakespearean scholar.

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Yeats’s Vision and the Later Plays

Helen Hennessy Vendler

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John Keats: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard: A Facsimile Edition, With an Essay on the Manuscripts by Helen Vendler

John Keats

After more than a century of study, we know more about Keats than we do about most writers of the past, but we still cannot frilly grasp the magical processes…

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The Waste Land and Other Poems: Including The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T. S. Eliot

A treasury of the most important early poems combines poetic elements from diverse sources with bits of popular culture and common speech to recreate the chaos of Europe in the…

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The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 1 1955-1977

A. R. Ammons

One of the great American poets … he sounds like nobody else. -Helen Vendler

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The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons: Volume 2 1978-2005

A. R. Ammons

One of the great American poets … he sounds like nobody else. -Helen Vendler

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Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy

This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy. Contributors include Eve Sedgwick, Helen Vendler, Dimitrios Yatromanolakis, Richard…

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Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 1

Michael Ignatieff,Laura Kipnis,David Grossman

Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features new essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists, along with introducing new talent, to inspire and impact…

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