Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar - Essays on Poets and Poetry

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 Gathers two decades of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose. Zusammenfassung One of our foremost commentators examines the work of a broad range of English! Irish! and American poets. Helen Vendler's essays! book reviews! and occasional prose from the past two decades! taken together! are an eloquent plea for the centrality in humanistic study and modern culture of poetry's subversive! sustaining! and demanding legacy.

Product details

• Authors: Helen Vendler, Helen Hennessy Vendler
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.05.2018
• EAN: 9780674984080
• ISBN: 978-0-674-98408-0
• No. of pages: 464
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; POETRY / General, Poetry, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Essays, LITERARY CRITICISM / Semiotics & Theory, Literature: history & criticism, Literary essays, Literary theory, Literature: history and criticism, Poetry / Poems