Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology, Compact Edition - Softcover

Vendler, Helen

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With a down-to-earth approach, Poems, Poets, and Poetry takes the perplexity out of poetry so that you can appreciate the artistry of well-known poetic voices from the past and from today.

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HELEN VENDLER, critic and scholar of English-language poetry from the seventeenth century to the present, is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University-the first woman to hold a University Professorship, the highest academic distinction Harvard bestows. She has been poetry critic of The New Yorker since 1978, and has been a member of the Pulitzer Prize jury for poetry. Author of ground-breaking scholarly studies on George Herbert, John Keats, Wallace Stevens, William Butler Yeats, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Seamus Heaney, she won the National Book Critic's Circle Award for Criticism in 1981, and her criticism has been collected in several volumes, including Part of Nature, Part of Us, The Music of What Happens, and Soul Says.

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