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Helen Vendler (née Hennessy; April 30, 1933 – April 23, 2024) was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities. Her academic focus was critical analysis of poetry and she studied poets from Shakespeare and George Herbert to modern poets such as Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. Her technique was close reading, which she described as "reading from the point of view of a writer".[1]
Vendler reviewed poetry regularly for periodicals including The New Yorker and The New York Review of Books. She was also a regular judge for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and so was influential in determining writers' reputation and success.[1]
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HelenVendler (née Hennessy; April 30, 1933 – April 23, 2024) was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language...
Vendler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: HelenVendler (1933–2024), American critic of poetry Zeno Vendler (1921–2004), Hungarian-born...
poets, critics and scholars, including Kathleen Spivack, James Atlas, HelenVendler, and Dudley Young, have written essays about Lowell's teaching style...
poetry critic Helen Hennessy Vendler—and had two sons. Vendler died on 13 January 2004 at the age of 82 in Hetyefő, (Komitat Veszprém). Vendler's 1957 Philosophical...
Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, HelenVendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas...
engages in an argument with the youth regarding procreation. Scholar HelenVendler sums up Sonnet 1: "The different rhetorical moments of this sonnet (generalizing...
of the compelling quality of the emotional union of "true minds". As HelenVendler has observed, "This famous almost 'impersonal' sonnet on the marriage...
first published in 1891 in the second collection of Dickinson's poems. HelenVendler regards the poem as a "bizarre little narrative" but one that typifies...
the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including HelenVendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's...
Libraries Catalog. Web. 29 October 2012 Vendler, Helen, and HelenVendler. The Art Of Shakespeare's Sonnets / HelenVendler. n.p.: Cambridge, Massachusetts :...
2307/1208735. JSTOR 1208735. HelenVendler, Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (2010) HelenVendler, The Music of What Happens:...
is at most a faint hint of Keats's own possible fear. According to HelenVendler, "To Autumn" may be seen as an allegory of artistic creation. As the...
think that my love is as rare as any woman belied by false compare." HelenVendler, who is also referenced in Steele's article states that the final couplet...
for what I call pig consciousness—wallowing in mud and loving it". HelenVendler considered that something of the kind happened to Seamus Heaney when...
fleeing the 1971 Bangladeshi genocide, exemplifying what literary critic HelenVendler described as Ginsberg's persistent opposition to "imperial politics"...
University to study English, French, and Russian literature and poetry with HelenVendler at Harvard. Newley was a television presenter and recording artist in...
Franklin, Anthony Grafton, Enrique Krauze, Ryan Lizza, Sacha Z. Scoblic, HelenVendler, Sean Wilentz). In all, two-thirds of the names on the editorial masthead...
available to the public. In an outraged piece for The New Republic, HelenVendler labeled the drafts "maimed and stunted" and rebuked Farrar, Straus and...
but a "thinking reed" (in contrast to a "thinking stone", as critic HelenVendler has observed, noting the influence of a Wallace Stevens lyric, "Le Monocle...
a fearless and playful heart, and a thrilling ear". Literary critic HelenVendler reviewed his work and likened him to Keats. She wrote: Ritvo had the...
praised by literary critics such as Harold Bloom, Harold Brodkey and HelenVendler as reimagining the true crime genre with its use of literary theory...
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