The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Vendler, Helen
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Vendler, Helen

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the...
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Author: Helen Vendler
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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Vendler, Helen

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry

$69.46
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry by Vendler, Helen

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry

$69.46
Author: Helen Vendler
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week

One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose--including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture--in a single volume.

"It's one of Vendler's] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career in which she revisits many of the poets she has venerated over a lifetime and written about previously. Reading it, one can feel her happiness in doing what she loves best. There is scarcely a page in the book where there isn't a fresh insight about a poet or poetry."
--Charles Simic, New York Review of Books

"Vendler has done perhaps more than any other living critic to shape--I might almost say 'create'--our understanding of poetry in English."
--Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review

"Poems are artifacts and Vendler] shows us, often thrillingly, how those poems she considers the best specimens are made...A reader feels that she has thoroughly absorbed her subjects and conveys her understanding with candor, clarity, wit."
--John Greening, Times Literary Supplement

Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 05/14/2018
Pages: 464
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d
ISBN: 9780674984080

About the Author
Vendler, Helen: - Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

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