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11 produkter
Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Häftad, 1999
336 kr
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“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 accounts of poetry, will never be the same again.”—Tom Paulin, London Review of BooksThe definitive guide to Shakespeare’s …
Coming of Age as a Poet
Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
Häftad, 2004
359 kr
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“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 great poets’ first steps across the threshold of genius.To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become an adult; and …
Our Secret Discipline
Yeats and Lyric Form
Inbunden, 2007
326 kr
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“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.The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of one’s …
Breaking of Style
Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
Häftad, 1995
373 kr
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"Lucid and elegant...a tour de force."—A. O. Scott, NationThree lectures on the fraught process of poetic development from a titan of contemporary criticism. Style is the material body of lyric poetry. To cast off an earlier style is to commit an act of violence against the creative self. Why do …
Music of What Happens
Poems, Poets, Critics
Häftad, 1989
580 kr
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“Essential Vendler.”—Chicago TribuneA leading partisan of close reading defends aesthetics as the beating heart of criticism.The late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed a sea change in literary criticism. As deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and other currents dethroned the New Criticism in the …
Odes of John Keats
Häftad, 1985
384 kr
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“Simply superb.”—NationA landmark study reconstructs the magnificent architecture of Keats’s odes beam by beam. With the exception of Shakespeare, John Keats has garnered more critical attention than probably any other English poet, above all for his six great odes. Composed in the span of just a …
On Extended Wings
Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems
Häftad, 1969
463 kr
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“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 his major poems.”—Harold Bloom, New York Times Book ReviewA virtuosic reading of Stevens’s most difficult poems brings their …
Part of Nature, Part of Us
Modern American Poets
Häftad, 1980
504 kr
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“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 Randall Jarrell once defined the ideal critic as “an extremely good reader—one who has learned to show to others what he saw …
Soul Says
On Recent Poetry
Häftad, 1996
359 kr
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“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 incisive gaze to her contemporaries, from Louise Glück to Rita Dove.Lyric poetry, says the incomparable Helen Vendler, is …
Wallace Stevens
Words Chosen Out of Desire
Häftad, 1986
331 kr
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“More than any other single critic, Vendler has shown people how to read Stevens not as a philosopher...but as a passionate and often disappointed human being.”—Stephanie Burt, Wallace Stevens JournalA giant of modern poetry finds his greatest reader and fiercest advocate in the peerless Helen …
Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
Essays on Poets and Poetry
Häftad, 2018
281 kr
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“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 lively collection of the great critic’s later work showcases her unswerving and deeply personal dedication to good poetry. …
