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23 produkter
Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets
Häftad, 1999
367 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 …
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays
Inbunden, 2025
288 kr
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In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for …
Seamus Heaney (Text Only)
E-bok, 2012
88 kr
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A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.Among Heaney’s many published collections are `Death of a Naturalist’, `North’, `Field Work’, `Station Island’ and `Spirit Level’ (May 1996), which was that rarest of things: a collection …
Coming of Age as a Poet
Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
Häftad, 2004
363 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 …
Poets Thinking
Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
Häftad, 2006
363 kr
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“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 lucky—beauty and solace.”—Christopher Benfey, New York Review of BooksThe grand dame of poetic criticism defends lyric …
Our Secret Discipline
Yeats and Lyric Form
Inbunden, 2007
335 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 …
Dickinson
Selected Poems and Commentaries
Häftad, 2012
265 kr
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“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 insight into a wickedly keen poetic mind.”—Hillary Kelly, New RepublicAn interpretive introduction to Dickinson’s brilliant, …
Breaking of Style
Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
Häftad, 1995
376 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
586 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
393 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
468 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
510 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
363 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
335 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
284 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. …
Invisible Listeners
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Häftad, 2007
274 kr
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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 speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy--George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the …
Last Looks, Last Books
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Inbunden, 2010
304 kr
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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 …
Invisible Listeners
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
E-bok, 2009
361 kr
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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 speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy—George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, …
Last Looks, Last Books
Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
E-bok, 2010
410 kr
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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 modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious …
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics
Spring 2022
Av Laura Kipnis, David Greenberg m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
172 kr
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“A Meteor of Intelligent Substance”“Something was Missing in our Culture, and Here It Is”"Liberties is THE place to be."Liberties, a journal of Culture and Politics, is essential reading for those engaged in the cultural and political issues and causes of our time. Liberties features serious, …
Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
Essays on Poets and Poetry
Inbunden, 2015
388 kr
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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 occasional prose—including the 2004 …
