Screen LibraryThe ocean, the bird and the scholar : essays on poets and poetry /
Gathers two decades of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose.
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Harvard University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, Massachusetts : |
| Publication Dates: |
2018. ©2015 |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
| Edition: | First Harvard University Press paperback edition. |
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| Summary: |
Gathers two decades of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose. |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 444 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9780674984080 (paperback) : 0674984080 (paperback) |
| CLC: | I712.25 |
| Call Number: | I712.25/V452 |
| Contents: |
The ocean, the bird, and the scholar: how the arts help us to live -- Fin-de-Siè̀̀cle lyric: W.B. Yeats and Jorie Graham -- The unweary blues: the collected poems of Langston Hughes -- The nothing that is: Chickamauga, by Charles Wright -- American X-rays: forty years of Allen Ginsberg's poetry -- The waste land: fragments and montage -- The snow poems and garbage: episodes in A.R. Ammons's poetics -- All her nomads: collected poems, by Amy Clampitt -- Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia: "Mycenae Lookout" and the usefulness of tradition -- Melville: the lyric of history -- Lowell's |