| The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics Revised Edition Contributor(s): Vendler, Helen (Author) |
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ISBN: 0674591534 ISBN-13: 9780674591530 Publisher: Harvard University Press OUR PRICE: $51.48 Product Type: Paperback Published: January 1989 Annotation: Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children," View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Semiotics & Theory - Literary Criticism | Poetry |
| Dewey: 811.509 |
| Series: Poems, Poets, Critics |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6.13" W x 9.2" (1.34 lbs) 486 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Vendler, Helen: - Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. |