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  • The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

    by Helen Hennessy Vendler ...
    “A great achievement, the work of an author with an almost devout passion for good poems.”—Frank Kermode, New Republic“Criticism of the Sonnets, and by extension, critical accounts of poetry, will never be the same again.”—Tom Paulin, London Review of BooksThe definitive guide to Shakespeare’s Sonnets from the most accomplished critic of our time.</s... ... Read more

    $38.39 CAD

  • Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

    by Helen Vendler ...
    In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia PlathHelen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience.Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler ... Read more

    $27.19 CAD

  • Seamus Heaney (Text Only)

    by Helen Vendler ...
    A dazzling short assessment of the life and work of the poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for literature.Among Heaney’s many published collections are ‘Death of a Naturalist’, ‘North’, ‘Field Work’, ‘Station Island’ and ‘Spirit Level’ (May 1996), which was that rarest of things: a collection of poetry that was also a bestseller. Yet despite his popularity, Heaney’s poetry can be difficult ... Read more

    $11.99 CAD

  • Last Looks, Last Books

    Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

    by Helen Vendler ...
    Series series Bollingen Series
    Modern American poets writing in the face of deathIn Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as ... Read more

    $33.99 CAD

  • Invisible Listeners

    Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

    by Helen Vendler ...
    The renowned literary critic offers an enlightening exploration of three great poets that "goes to the heart of our experience of lyric" (Bonnie Costello, Boston University, author of Shifting Ground).When a poet addresses a living person, we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners? In Invisible Listeners, Helen ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar

    Essays on Poets and Poetry

    by Helen Hennessy Vendler ...
    “One of [Vendler’s] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career.”—Charles Simic, New York Review of BooksA Times Higher Education Book of the Week.A lively collection of the great critic’s later work showcases her unswerving and deeply personal dedication to good poetry.One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and ... ... Read more

    $27.09 CAD

  • The Odes of John Keats

    by Helen Hennessy Vendler ...
    “Simply superb.”—NationA landmark study reconstructs the magnificent architecture of Keats’s odes beam by beam.With the exception of Shakespeare, John Keats has garnered more critical attention than probably any other English poet, above all for his six great odes. Composed in the span of just a few months in 1819, the odes mark the high point of Keats’s all-too-short literary career, forming, as ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Poets Thinking

    Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats

    by Helen Hennessy Vendler ...
    “In reminding us to look at and listen to the actual words on the page...Vendler invites us to expand our response to experience, and to find in it—if we are both attentive and lucky—beauty and solace.”—Christopher Benfey, New York Review of BooksThe grand dame of poetic criticism defends lyric poetry as a product of fierce intelligence as much as creative inspiration.Poetry has often been ... Read more

    $36.09 CAD

  • The Poetry of George Herbert

    by Helen Hennessy Vendler ...
    “I cannot imagine that anybody who cares for Herbert, or more generally for poetry, will fail to learn something from this book.”—Frank Kermode, New York Times Book ReviewA comprehensive reevaluation of the eminent metaphysical poet discovers the human passions warring with his saintly visions of divine harmony.George Herbert’s admission to the canon of English poetry was hard won. Though ... Read more

    $50.79 CAD

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    Invisible Listeners

    Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery

    by Helen Vendler ...
    Narrated by Marguerite Gavin ...

    Unabridged

    2 hours 37 min

    When a poet addresses a living person - whether friend or enemy, lover or sister - we recognize the expression of intimacy. But what impels poets to leap across time and space to speak to invisible listeners, seeking an ideal intimacy - George Herbert with God, Walt Whitman with a reader in the future, John Ashbery with the Renaissance painter Francesco Parmigianino? In Invisible Listeners, Helen ... Read more

    $22.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

    Also available as: eBook

    Also available as: eBook

  • Coming of Age as a Poet

    Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

    by Helen Hennessy Vendler ...
    “Brilliant...full of perceptions and rewards that send one scurrying back to the text.” —John Bayley, New York Review of BooksThe finest reader of her generation retraces four great poets’ first steps across the threshold of genius.To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become an adult; and to write one’s first “perfect” poem—a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style—is to ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons

    Volume 1 1955-1977

    by A. R. Ammons ...
    “One of the great American poets . . . he sounds like nobody else.”—Helen Vendler“So I said I am Ezra / and the wind whipped my throat / gaming for the sounds of my voice. . . .” So begins one of the most remarkable oeuvres in the history of American poetry. The Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons, Volume I presents the first half of Archie Randolph Ammons’s long career, including the complete texts of ... Read more

    $50.99 CAD