OCEAN THE BIRD & THE SCHOLAR
Author(s): VENDLER HELEN
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
Product Information
General Fields
- :
- : Harvard University Press
- : The Belknap Press
- : 0.508
- : 14 May 2018
- : .32 Centimeters X 1.58 Centimeters X 2.34 Centimeters
- : books
Special Fields
- : VENDLER HELEN
- : Paperback
- : 1805
- : English
- : 818.1
- : 464