Helen Hennessy Vendler (b. 1933) is a leading American critic of poetry. Year 1933 ( MCMXXXIII) was a Common year starting on Sunday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. The United States of America —commonly referred to as the ^[1]

Contents 1 Life and career 2 Bibliography 3 Notes 4 External links

Life and career

Vendler has written books on W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats and Seamus Heaney. Wallace Stevens ( October 2, 1879 – August 2, 1955) was a major American Modernist Poet. She is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, where she has had a position since 1981. She has taught at Smith and Boston University. She married (then later divorced) the philosopher Zeno Vendler with whom she had one son. Zeno Vendler (1921 – 2004 was a Hungarian-born philosopher He was born and brought up in Hungary in 1921 In 1992 Vendler received a Litt. D. from Bates College. Bates College is a private liberal arts college located in Lewiston Maine, in the United States.

Vendler did not major in English as an undergraduate. She earned an A. B. in chemistry at Emmanuel College. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for mathematics, before earning her Ph. The Fulbright Program, including the Fulbright-Hays Program, is a program of grants for international educational exchange for scholars educators graduate D. in English & American Literature from Harvard.

Bibliography

• Yeats's Vision and the Later Plays (1963)
• On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems, Harvard University Press (1969)
• I. A. Richards: Essays in His Honor (1973) editor with Reuben Brower and John Hollander
• The Poetry of George Herbert, Harvard University Press (1975)
• Part of Nature Part of Us: Modern American Poets, Harvard University Press (1980)
• Modern American Poets (1981)
• Stevens: Poems (1982)
• The Odes of John Keats, Harvard University Press (1983)
• The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry, Harvard University Press (1985) editor
• The Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1986)
• Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire, Harvard University Press (1986)
• Voices and Visions: The Poet in America (1987)
• Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics, Harvard University Press (1988)
• Poems by W. John Hollander (born October 28, 1929 in New York City) is an American Poet and literary Critic. Harvard University Press ( HUP) is a Publishing house, a division of Harvard University, that is highly respected in Academic publishing. B. Yeats (Arion Press, 1990)
• The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition, Harvard University Press (1995)
• John Keats, 1795-1995: With a Catalogue of the Harvard Keats Collection, Harvard University Press (1995) with Leslie A. Morris and William H. Bond
• The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham, Harvard University Press (1995)
• The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition (1995)
• Poems - Poets - Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (1996)
• Soul Says: On Recent Poetry, Harvard University Press (1996) essays
• The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets, Harvard University Press (1997)
• Seamus Heaney, Harvard University Press (1998)
• Anthology of Contemporary American Poetry (2003) editor
• Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath, Harvard University Press(2003)
• Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Harvard University Press (2004)
• Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (2005)
• Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, Harvard University Press (2007)

Notes

1. ^ the leading poetry critic in America, according to a New York Times article. [1]

External links

• [2] Transcript of interview with Ramona Koval on ABC Radio National The Book Show, 7 February 2008
• Conversation with Vendler (NEH)
• Invisible Listeners Book (Princeton University Press)
• "The Closest Reader." (New York Times Profile)
• Helen Vendler archive from The New York Review of Books

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