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Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images....
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Yeats and Lyric Form
Presents an examination of lyric form in the poetry of W. B. Yeats....
Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each ...
Argues that Keat's six odes form a sequence, identifies their major themes, and provides detailed interpretations of the poems' philosophy, mythologic...
On Recent Poetry
This work comprises essays on American, British and Irish poetry, showing contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form. It explains the power ...
Modern American Poets
A collection of book reviews and essays on more than forty modern American poets....
This text aims to provide a guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language....
Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems
Though Wallace Stevens' shorter poems are perhaps his best known, his longer poems, Vendler suggests in this book, deserve equal fame and equal consid...
Poems, Poets, Critics
This is a collection of previously published book reviews of modern poetry. The poets discussed include John Ashbery, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, Se...
Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four po...
Selected Poems and Commentaries
Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentiv...
Essays on Poets and 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-c...
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
When a poet addresses a living person, we recognise the intimacy being evoked, but what causes a poet to invoke invisible listeners? Helen Vendler exp...
Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a...
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great m...
Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
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. Throug...
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 p...
Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
How does a poet repeatedly over a lifetime make art out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets...
Civil War Poems
This reprint of an 1866 volume of poems by the author of Moby Dick and Billy Budd includes four essays showing why Melville's verse with its unconvent...
Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
Selected by Helen Vendler
These Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover editions are popular for their compact size and reasonable price. Poems: Stevens contains a selection,...
The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture 1990
The Hilda Hulme Memorial Lecture, 3 December 1990
Volume IV, Issue 2
Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Published quart...
Volume III, Issue #4
Volume 4, Issue 3
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics is devoted to educating the general public about the history, current trends, and possibilities of culture a...
Liberties, a Journal of Culture and Politics , is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues of our time. Published quar...