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12 produkter
Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays
Inbunden, 2025
280 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 …
Poets Thinking
Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
Häftad, 2006
360 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 …
Dickinson
Selected Poems and Commentaries
Häftad, 2012
259 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, …
Invisible Listeners
Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery
Häftad, 2007
269 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
298 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 …
