The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar write by Helen Vendler. This book was released on 2015-05-11. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar write by Helen Vendler. This book was released on 2015-05-11. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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
Poets Thinking
Poets Thinking - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Poets Thinking write by Helen Vendler. This book was released on 2009-06-30. Poets Thinking available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the four very different poets she considers here, Helen Vendler reveals a style of thinking in operation; although they may prefer different means, she argues, all poets of any value are thinkers. The four poets taken up in this volume--Alexander Pope, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and William Butler Yeats--come from three centuries and three nations, and their styles of thinking are characteristically idiosyncratic. Vendler shows us Pope performing as a satiric miniaturizer, remaking in verse the form of the essay, Whitman writing as a poet of repetitive insistence for whom thinking must be followed by rethinking, Dickinson experimenting with plot to characterize life's unfolding, and Yeats thinking in images, using montage in lieu of argument. With customary lucidity and spirit, Vendler traces through these poets' lines to find evidence of thought in lyric, the silent stylistic measures representing changes of mind, the condensed power of poetic thinking. Her work argues against the reduction of poetry to its (frequently well-worn) themes and demonstrates, instead, that there is always in admirable poetry a strenuous process of thinking, evident in an evolving style--however ancient the theme--that is powerful and original.
Part of Nature, Part of Us
Part of Nature, Part of Us - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Part of Nature, Part of Us write by Helen Vendler. This book was released on 1980. Part of Nature, Part of Us available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A collection of book reviews and essays on more than forty modern American poets.
The Breaking of Style
The Breaking of Style - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Breaking of Style write by Helen Vendler. This book was released on 1995. The Breaking of Style available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic.
