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The Music of What Happens. Poems, Poets, Critics.
Helen Vendler
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Description for The Music of What Happens. Poems, Poets, Critics.
Paperback. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt. Num Pages: 486 pages. BIC Classification: 1DBK; DSB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 235 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 685.
Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show—lucidly and invitingly—just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.
Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show—lucidly and invitingly—just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1989
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
486
Condition
New
Number of Pages
486
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674591530
SKU
V9780674591530
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About Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler (1933–2024) was a leading poetry critic and the author of nineteen books on poets from William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, she contributed regularly to the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the New York Times Book Review, London Review of Books, and the New Republic. ... Read more
Reviews for The Music of What Happens. Poems, Poets, Critics.
Vendler’s is an ample book…and will give us enough to go on digesting and arguing about, approving and resisting, for a long time yet.
Charles Tomlinson
Times Literary Supplement
The Music of What Happens, with its deft, precise treatment of the configurative strategies of Ashbery, Heaney, Ginsberg, Sexton, and others reminds us why, ultimately, we might put ... Read more
Charles Tomlinson
Times Literary Supplement
The Music of What Happens, with its deft, precise treatment of the configurative strategies of Ashbery, Heaney, Ginsberg, Sexton, and others reminds us why, ultimately, we might put ... Read more