Dickinson - Selected Poems and Commentaries

Informationen zum Autor Helen Vendler (1933–2024) was a leading poetry critic and the author of nineteen books on poets from William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, she contributed regularly to the New Yorker , the New York Review of Books , the New York Times Book Review , London Review of Books , and the New Republic . She was the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. Klappentext The unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson's brilliant, enigmatic verse. In commentaries accompanying 150 selected poems, Helen Vendler explores Dickinson's major thematic preoccupations while highlighting the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Zusammenfassung The unrivaled doyenne of close reading offers an interpretive introduction to Emily Dickinson’s brilliant, enigmatic verse. In commentaries accompanying 150 selected poems, Helen Vendler explores Dickinson’s major thematic preoccupations while highlighting the poet’s startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Vendler, Helen Hennessy Vendler
• Publisher: Belknap press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.10.2012
• EAN: 9780674066380
• ISBN: 978-0-674-06638-0
• Dimensions: 162 mm x 236 mm x 28 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 19th Century, Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: poetry and poets