This work describes and analyses at length the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. It considers the work of Robert Lowell, A.R. Ammons, James Merrill and Adrienne Rich.
This work describes and analyses at length the prophetic voice and the everyday voice in postwar and contemporary American poetry. It considers the wo...
Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poems and poetry through her many articles for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and the New York Review of Books.
With Something Understood, some of the most important poets, critics, and scholars in the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, and Ireland pay tribute to five decades of Vendler's work. Included here are new...
Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure ...
