Soul Says On Recent Poetry

In these eloquent essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets.

Info autore

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.

Riassunto

Drawing its title from a poem by Jorie Graham, Soul Says collects twenty-one of Helen Vendler’s best essays on the force, beauty, and formal intricacies of late-twentieth-century verse. Vendler brilliantly explains how lyric poetry, pulsing with musicality, uses arrangement, pacing, and metaphor to illuminate the hidden corners of inner life.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Helen Vendler, Helen Hennessy Vendler
• Editore: University Presses
• Lingue: Inglese
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Tascabile
• Data pubblicazione: 01.10.1996
• Categoria: Scienze umane, arte, musica > Scienze linguistiche e letterarie > Letteratura generale e comparata
• EAN: 9780674821477
• ISBN: 978-0-674-82147-7
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.6 x 23.5 x 1.9 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 408 g
• Categorie: Style, Metaphor, New Yorker, Wallace Stevens, Form, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Rhythm, Modernity, Structure, American English, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Adrienne Rich, Snyder, Metaphysics, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets, American poetry, Elegy, Lyric, Dave Smith, Tone, Ashbery, Merrill, schuyler, Henri Cole, Donald Davie, Jorie Graham, a. r. ammons