Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0312085370 ISBN 13: 9780312085377

Publisher: St Martin's Press, 1997

Synopsis

Written by a preeminent critic and legendary teacher, this text and anthology presents the incisive, practical methods of reading and writing that Helen Vendler has used for decades to demystify poetry for her students and introduce them to its artistry and pleasures.

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About the Author

HELEN VENDLER, critic and scholar of English-language poetry from the seventeenth century to the present, is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University the first woman to hold a University Professorship, the highest academic distinction Harvard bestows. She was poetry critic of "The New Yorker" from 1978-1990, and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1990-1999, often serving, before those years, on Pulitzer Prize juries for poetry. She has written ground-breaking scholarly studies on the work of William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, George Herbert, John Keats, William Shakespeare, and Seamus Heaney, and has received the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism in 1981, as well as the Truman Capote Prize and the Lowell Prize of the MLA. Her criticism has been collected in several volumes, including "Part of Nature, Part of Us, The Music of What Happens, " and "Soul Says. ""

Edition details

• Publisher: St Martin's Press
• Publication date: 1997
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0312085370
• ISBN 13: 9780312085377
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 656
• Editor: Vendler Helen Hennessy