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Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 165 |
Release | : 2010-03-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1400834325 |
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Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.
Author | : Emily Dickinson |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 552 |
Release | : 2010-09-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674048679 |
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Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems. In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson’s work as a poet, “from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.” Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler’s selection reveals Emily Dickinson’s development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called “the history and science of feeling.” In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, “the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.” All of Dickinson’s preoccupations—death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought—are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet’s startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as “a master” of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry.
Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 460 |
Release | : 2007-11-29 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780674026957 |
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The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.
Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 494 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674591523 |
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This is a collection of previously published book reviews of modern poetry. The poets discussed include John Ashbery, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heaney, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Anne Sexton and Wallace Stevens.
Author | : A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 316 |
Release | : 2013-10-01 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9780674864641 |
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Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 394 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674654761 |
Download Part of Nature, Part of Us Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
A collection of book reviews and essays on more than forty modern American poets.
Author | : A Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Bedford Books |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2013-12-01 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 9781457652196 |
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Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 155 |
Release | : 2009-06-30 |
Genre | : Poetry |
ISBN | : 0674044622 |
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Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Author | : Helen Vendler |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2003 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780674010246 |
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With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.
Author | : Rita Dove |
Publisher | : Penguin Group |
Total Pages | : 656 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : American poetry |
ISBN | : 0143106430 |
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An anthology of twentieth-century American poetry, featuring Wallace Stevens, T.S. Eliot, Elizabeth Bishop, Robert Hayden, Gwendolyn Brooks, Derek Walcott, Adrienne Rich, John Ashbery, Anne Sexton, and many others.