Helen Hennessy Vendler, Author Harvard University Press $14 (154p) ISBN 978-0-674-35432-6
In a few provocative pages, Harvard professor and author of the NBCC winner Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets, once again demonstrates her talent for smart and sympathetic reading of poetry. She looks at four poets and their...
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Helen Hennessy Vendler, Author Belknap Press $45 (672p) ISBN 978-0-674-63711-5
Cloaked in biographical mystery, Shakespeare's sonnets have tended to inspire historical detective work (most often into the identity of the Dark Lady, the Rival Poet) rather than literary criticism. When recent critics have attempted close readings
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Helen Hennessy Vendler, Author Harvard University Press $25 (188p) ISBN 978-0-674-79611-9
Perhaps no late 20th-century poet feels the poignantly complex responsibilities of literary vocation as deeply as Seamus Heaney, and with this book Vendler proves that no reader of his work is better attuned to those concerns. Following last year's...
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