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Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children" View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show-lucidly and invitingly-just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.
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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.
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, Softcover/Paperback. Condition: Gut. Auflage: New ed. 486 Seiten Fresh and clean copy in good condition. Frisches und sauberes Exemplar in gutem Zustand. Contents: Introduction - On Criticism - The Function of Criticism - Looking for Poetry in America - Critical Models: On Geoffrey Hartman - Defensive Harmonies: On Harold Bloom - The Medley Is the Message: On Roland Barthes - The Hunting of Wallace Stevens: Critical Approaches - On Poetry - Lionel Trilling and Wordsworth's Immortality Ode - Keats and the Use of Poetry - Reading Walt Whitman - On Poets - Seamus Heaney - Stephen Spender: Journals and Poems - Donald Davie: Self-Portraits in Verse - Ted Hughes - Czeslaw Milosz - John Ashbery, Louise Glück - Allen Ginsberg - Sylvia Plath - Elizabeth Bishop - Anne Sexton - A. R. Ammons: Dwelling in the Flow of Shapes - Recent Writing - James Merrill - Adrienne Rich - Charles Wright - Amy Clampitt - Dave Smith - Frank Bidart - Michael Blumenthal - Louise ISBN 9780674591530 Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 680. Seller Inventory # 1242890
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Paperback. Condition: New. "Essential Vendler."-Chicago TribuneA leading partisan of close reading defends aesthetics as the beating heart of criticism.The late 1970s and early 1980s witnessed a sea change in literary criticism. As deconstruction, Marxism, feminism, and other currents dethroned the New Criticism in the American academy, those who held fast to formalist approaches appeared increasingly outmoded. Critics, as Helen Vendler put it, had been "put on notice" by literary theory.Fortunately, Vendler was up to the challenge. The essays and reviews collected in The Music of What Happens make a defiantly unfashionable case for her stalwart aestheticism. According to Vendler, the critic's job is neither to interpret the poem, uncovering the secret meaning lurking beneath its surfaces, nor to unmask its ideological underpinnings, but to describe how the interplay of form and signification creates a unique and cohesive aesthetic experience. Good criticism illuminates the qualities that make each poem unlike any other: it explains not only what happens in the text but also, as Seamus Heaney once wrote, "the music of what happens." Including magisterial assessments of her fellow critics and literary theorists, from Roland Barthes and Geoffrey Hartman to Harold Bloom and Lionel Trilling, as well as characteristically acute appraisals of a wide range of contemporary and canonical poets, The Music of What Happens shows the rich dividends that accrue when we treat literature as a fine art like painting or sculpture rather than a discourse to be decoded and evaluated in social and historical terms. Above all, we become more attuned to the pleasures of reading-and even the pleasures of criticism itself. Seller Inventory # LU-9780674591530
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Condition: New. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685. . 1989. New ed. Paperback. . . . . Seller Inventory # V9780674591530
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