Helen Vendler

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Helen Vendler is affiliated with the following schools: Emmanuel College , Harvard University

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Helen Vendler

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#137

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#456

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#68

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#84

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#138

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#32

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According to Wikipedia, Helen Hennessy Vendler is an American literary critic and is Porter University Professor Emerita at Harvard University. Life and career Helen Hennessy Vendler was born on April 30, 1933, in Boston, Massachusetts, to George Hennessy and Helen Hennessy. She was the second of three children. Her parents encouraged her to read poems as a child. Vendler's father taught Spanish, French, and Italian at a high school, while her mother had taught in a primary school before marriage. Vendler attended Emmanuel College over the Boston Girls' Latin School and Radcliffe College because her parents would not let her enroll in "secular education". She received an A. B. from Emmanuel.

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Helen Vendler's Published Works

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Published Works

The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets. (1997) (169)
The poetry of George Herbert (1975) (96)
The Odes of John Keats (1983) (96)
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems (1969) (63)
Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007) (56)
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984) (45)
3. The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel (2010) (39)
The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics (1990) (36)
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets (1980) (35)
ON CRITICISM. (2019) (34)
Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (2010) (31)
Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (2005) (30)
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham@@@The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition (1995) (27)
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry (1995) (27)
Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (2002) (27)
Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats (2004) (16)
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (1995) (15)
Yeats's Vision and the later plays (2014) (14)
I.A. Richards: Essays in His Honor (1973) (13)
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (2010) (10)
Last Looks, Last Books (2010) (9)
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry (2015) (9)
The later poetry (2006) (9)
Seamus Heaney and the "Oresteia": "Mycenae Lookout" and the Usefulness of Tradition (1999) (8)
Domestication, Domesticity and the Otherworldly (1977) (8)
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2004) (7)
Coming of age as a poet : Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath (2003) (7)
Battle-pieces and aspects of the war : civil war poems (2001) (7)
The given and the made : recent American poets (1995) (7)
The odes of Keats, and their earliest known manuscripts (1971) (6)
RITA DOVE Identity Markers (1994) (5)
The Harvard book of contemporary American poetry (1986) (5)
The Experiential Beginnings of Keats's Odes (1973) (4)
The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997) (4)
The given and the made (1995) (4)
Wallace Stevens: Hypotheses and Contradictions (2003) (4)
Stevens and the lyric speaker (2007) (4)
Shakespeare's Sonnets: Reading for Difference (1994) (3)
Poetry and the Mediation of Value: Whitman on Lincoln (2000) (3)
Coming of age as a poet (2003) (3)
Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn” (2003) (3)
The Faber Book Of Contemporary American Poetry (1940) (3)
The Poems of Elizabeth Bishop (1987) (3)
Presidential Address 1980 (1981) (3)
3. The Unweary Blues. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes (2015) (2)
Herbert and Modern Poetry: A Response (2016) (2)
I. A. Richards. (1980) (2)
Poets Thinking (2004) (2)
11. Lowell’s Persistence. The Forms Depression Makes (2015) (1)
Questions of Canon: Modern Poetry (1991) (1)
Matter on various length scales: Poetry (2001) (1)
14. The Titles. A. R. Ammons, 1926–2001 (2015) (1)
6. The Waste Land. Fragments and Montage (2015) (1)
A Life of Learning (2001) (1)
Formal Pleasure in the Sonnets (2007) (1)
George Herbert and the Skewing of Origins@@@The Poetry of George Herbert (1976) (1)
19. Wallace Stevens. Memory, Dead and Alive (2015) (1)
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Centering Humanistic Study on the Arts. (2010) (1)
Voices & visions : the poet in America (1987) (1)
2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric. W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham (2015) (1)
13. Ardor and Artifice. Merrill’s Mozartian Touch (2015) (1)
The music of what happens (1988) (1)
Yeats's Changing Metaphors for the Otherworld (1964) (1)
The MLA and Literary and Linguistic Study and Teaching: The Centennial Forum (1984) (1)
New Books on Wallace Stevens@@@Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self@@@Wallace Stevens: The Poetics of Modernism@@@The Long Poems of Wallace Stevens: An Interpretative Study (1986) (1)
21. Attention, Shoppers. Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery (2015) (1)
The anthology of contemporary American poetry (2003) (1)
18. “The Circulation of Small Largenesses”. Mark Ford and John Ashbery (2015) (1)
Emily Dickinson Thinking (2001) (1)
24. Losing the Marbles: James Merrill on Greece (2015) (1)
Europe after the Last Rains. On Ashes for Breakfast (2013) (0)
Reading Poems before Our Very Eyes (1999) (0)
INTRODUCTION: Invisible Listeners (2009) (0)
Vacillation: Between What and What? (2013) (0)
The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952–2007 (2010) (0)
A Carnal Time, a Mortal Time (2016) (0)
8. Conflicts Pictured (1975) (0)
Chapter VI. The Player Queen (1963) (0)
George Herbert's 'Vertue' (1970) (0)
Teaching political science with Stanley Hoffmann ; Teaching poetry with Helen Vendler (2007) (0)
Lecture: Helen Vendler gives the 2006-2007 Harry C. Howard Jr. Lecture (2007) (0)
4. Imitators and Adapters (1975) (0)
House in Order (1999) (0)
27. Pried Open for All the World to See. Berryman the Poet (2015) (0)
Chapter VIII. Plays of Death, Purgation, and Resurrection (1963) (0)
12. Wallace Stevens. Hypotheses and Contradictions, Dedicated to Paul Alpers (2015) (0)
The Figure Concealed: Wallace Stevens, Music, and Valéryan Echoes (review) (2011) (0)
Philip Larkin: Life, Art and Love by James Booth (2014) (0)
‘Ingenious Lovely Things’ (2020) (0)
Catching Fire: “The Windhover” (2018) (0)
Technique in the Earlier Poems of Yeats (1991) (0)
1. Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books (2010) (0)
4. The Nothing That Is. Chickamauga, by Charles Wright (2015) (0)
Presidential Address 1980 (1981) (0)
The Heroine on the Urn (1985) (0)
'Renewed, Transfigured, In Another Pattern': Seamus Heaney's Multiple Translations (2016) (0)
Poetry manuscripts at Harvard (1990) (0)
The contributors (1993) (0)
Index of First Lines (1975) (0)
Chapter V. Dove or Swan (1963) (0)
4. Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell’s Day by Day (2010) (0)
THREE. John Ashbery and the Artist of the Past (2009) (0)
5. Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III (2010) (0)
Ups and Downs with Harvard: Affection, Justice, and Reciprocity in the University Community (2004) (0)
Chapter IX. The Saga of Cuchulain (1963) (0)
5. American X-Rays. Forty Years of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry (2015) (0)
6. Configurations and Constellations: Ethical, Discursive, and Speculative Lyrics (1975) (0)
22. Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Redivivus”. Its Plot and Its Poems (2015) (0)
TEACHING I: I. A. Richards (2016) (0)
Blackness and beyond blackness (1994) (0)
Seamus Justin Heaney (2015) (0)
TWO. Walt Whitman and the Reader-in-Futurity (2009) (0)
Heaney and Other Nobelmen (1999) (0)
6. Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts (2010) (0)
1. A Reading of Vertue (1975) (0)
Chapter I. The Great Wheel (1963) (0)
Majestic Indolence: English Romantic Poetry and the Work of Art by Willard Spiegelman (review) (2019) (0)
An introduction to Robert Frost's poetry (1988) (0)
2. Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens’s Th e Rock (2010) (0)
Modern American Poets@@@Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets (1981) (0)
Professional Notes and Comment (1988) (0)
The Puzzle of Sequence: Two Political Poems (2016) (0)
23. The Democratic Eye. A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery (2015) (0)
17. Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn”. Reworking the Past (2015) (0)
7. Fruit and Order: Formal Patterns (1975) (0)
Ammons's Maximal Minimalism: "The Most Words for the Least" in Bosh and Flapdoodle (2011) (0)
Seamus Justin Heaney: 13 April 1939 * 30 August 2013 (2015) (0)
Yeats and Ottava Rima (1995) (0)
7. The Snow Poems and Garbage. Episodes in A. R. Ammons’s Poetics (2015) (0)
Chapter IV. The Great Year of the Ancients (1963) (0)
Reading, Writing, and Teaching — Reply (1982) (0)
ONE. George Herbert and God (2009) (0)
Humanities in the Community. (1982) (0)
16. “Long Pig”. The Interconnection of the Exotic, the Dead, and the Fantastic in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop (2015) (0)
Scoops from the tide pools (1999) (0)
The Collected Works of Gerard Manley Hopkins Vols I-II: Correspondence edited by R.K.R. Thorton and Catherine Phillips (2014) (0)
Mazzaro, Vendler, Freud & Co. (1980) (0)
Modern American poetry (1988) (0)
Something Old, Something New (1988) (0)
Prelimenary Remarks, Introduction and Welcome, and Keynote Address: "Ammon's Last Poems" (2010) (0)
5. “My God, I Mean Myself”: Liturgical and Homiletic Poems (1975) (0)
A. Norman Jeffares, W. B. Yeats: A New Biography (London: Hutchinson, 1988) ix + 374 pp (1992) (0)
Recent Criticism on Contemporary American Poetry@@@The Fierce Embrace@@@Part of Nature, Part of Us@@@Postmodern American Poetry (1983) (0)
Contemporary Irish Poetry: The North's Hegemony@@@Poets of Modern Ireland: Text, Context, Intertext@@@Seamus Heaney@@@Reading Paul Muldoon (2000) (0)
Index of Titles (1975) (0)
Ways into Shakespeare's Sonnets (2018) (0)
The Poet's Calling in the English Ode (1981) (0)
The Architecture of Poetry (2021) (0)
1. Reading, Stage by Stage: Shakespeare's Sonnets (2019) (0)
Chapter VII. Desecration and the Lover’s Night (1963) (0)
3. Beauty in Discovery: Emblems and Allegories (1975) (0)
Shakespeare in and out the Classroom (1998) (0)
THE WORDSWORTH HERITAGE APPEAL (1979) (0)
20. Jorie Graham. The Moment of Excess (2015) (0)
26. Notes from the Trepidarium. Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido (2015) (0)
10. Melville. The Lyric of History (2015) (0)
CONCLUSION: Domesticating the Unseen (2009) (0)
2. Alternatives: The Reinvented Poem (1975) (0)
Chapter II. The Completed Symbol (1963) (0)
25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic (2015) (0)
1 The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.How the Arts Help Us to Live (2015) (0)
Chapter III. The Soul in Judgment (1963) (0)
The Function of Criticism (1982) (0)
Teaching poetry : Helen Vendler : reflections on teaching (2002) (0)
8. All Her Nomads. Collected Poems, by Amy Clampitt (2015) (0)
The Unbeliever: The Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop@@@The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics@@@The Consuming Myth: The Work of James Merrill (1989) (0)
WLT's Top 40 List, 1927-2001: Celebrating 75 Years of Publishing Excellence (2001) (0)

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