“Brilliant ...full of perceptions and rewards that send one scurrying back to the text.” —John Bayley, New York Review of BooksThe finest reader of her generation retraces four...
1000 tulosta hakusanalla Helen Vendler.
“In reminding us to look at and listen to the actual words on the page...Vendler invites us to expand our response to experience, and to find in it—if we are both attentive and...
“An intellectual feast.” —John Leonard, Harper’s MagazineA monumental study reveals the patient and meticulous labor behind the Irish Nobel laureate’s immaculate poetic craft.Th...
“The best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages.”—Seamus Heaney“[Vendler’s] succinct but astute readings of Emily Dickinson’s poetry are little kernels of insi...
"Lucid and elegant...a tour de force."—A. O. Scott, The NationThree lectures on the fraught process of poetic development from a titan of contemporary criticism. Style is the ma...
This collection of recent essays addresses general issues in poetry criticism, discusses the work of major contemporary poets, and introduces the work of newer poets
“Simply superb.”—The NationA landmark study reconstructs the magnificent architecture of Keats’s odes beam by beam. With the exception of Shakespeare, John Keats has garnered mo...
“Vendler is a commentator almost clairvoyant...Her book ought to be read, with care and gratitude, by every reader of Stevens, for no critic before her has understood so well hi...
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Helen Vendler · ISBN 9780674637122
Julkaistu 1999 Kieli englanti nidottu
“A great achievement, the work of an author with an almost devout passion for good poems.”—Frank Kermode, New Republic“Criticism of the Sonnets, and by extension, critical accou...
“Vendler sparkles.”—Irvin Ehrenpreis, New York Review of BooksAmerica’s foremost critic savors the poetry that made—and remade—our twentieth-century canon.The American poet Rand...
“Vendler again demonstrates—if proof were needed—why she is the finest poetry reviewer in the country.”—Boston GlobeThe renowned critic of Stevens, Keats, and Herbert turns an i...
The Poetry of George Herbert
Helen Vendler · ISBN 9780674864641
Julkaistu 1975 Kieli englanti sidottu
Discusses the difficult style of Wallace Stevens, looks at his major themes, and analyzes, in detail, several of his poems
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
Helen Vendler · ISBN 9780674984080
Julkaistu 2018 Kieli englanti nidottu
“One of [Vendler’s] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career.”—Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksA Times Higher Education Book of the Week.A li...
When a poet addresses a living person--whether friend or enemy, lover or sister--we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to...
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...
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays
Helen Vendler · ISBN 9781598538274
Julkaistu 2025 Kieli englanti sidottu
In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and S...
The Prelude
William Wordsworth; Helen Vendler · ISBN 9781684582501
Julkaistu 2024 Kieli englanti sidottu
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...
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Michael Ignatieff; Laura Kipnis; David Grossman; Ramachandra Guha; Thomas Chatterton Williams; Hannah Sullivan; Mark Lilla; Helen Vendler; Sean Wilentz; Adam Zagajewski; Louise Glück; James Wolcott; Andrea Marcolongo; Eli Lake; Sally Satel; Moshe Halbertal; Joshua Bennett; David Thomson; Julius Margolin; Clara Collier; Shawn McCreesh · ISBN 9781735718705
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti pokkari
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 imp...
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Anthony Julius; Nicholas Lemann; Alfred Brendel; Paul Berman; Jorie Graham; Fouad Ajami; Jack Goldsmith; Edward Luttwak; Roberto Calasso; Ishion Hutchinson; Walter Sheidel; Helen Vendler; Robert Alter; Daryl Michael Scott; Rosanna Warren; Alastair Macaulay; David Greenberg · ISBN 9781735718712
Julkaistu 2021 Kieli englanti pokkari
Liberties – A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today’s best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creati...