Helen Vendler
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Helen Vendler's new book, Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form, was published last autumn. She is preparing for publication her recent Mellon Lectures, entitled Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill. (March 2008)
From the Review
March 6, 2008: Snatched from the Air
Littlefoot: A Poem by Charles Wright
October 11, 2007: From the Homicidal to the Ecstatic
God's Silence by Franz Wright
Earlier Poems by Franz Wright
March 29, 2007: The Democratic Eye
A Worldly Country: New Poems by John Ashbery
April 29, 2004: Keats & Helen Keller (letter)
November 7, 2002: Leo's 'Last Supper': An Exchange
May 31, 2001: 'A Lament in Three Voices'
A Treatise on Poetry Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by the author and Robert Hass
Milosz's ABC's Czeslaw Milosz, translated from the Polish by Madeline Levine
March 8, 2001: 'Catching a Pig on the Farm'
The Wick of Memory: New and Selected Poems Dave Smith
February 24, 2000: Life Itself
Collected Poems, 1948-1998 by D.J. Enright
June 10, 1999: 'The Voice at 3 AM'
Jackstraws by Charles Simic
October 8, 1998: Staring Through the Stitches
Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997 by Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Stanislaw Baranczak, by Clare Cavanagh
New Collected Poems by Tomas Tranströmer, translated by Robin Fulton
December 4, 1997: 'Ice and Fire and Solitude'
Wallace Stevens: Collected Poetry and Prose by Frank Kermode elected and annotated by, by Joan Richardson
November 6, 1997: Anglo-Celtic Attitudes
Woman Police Officer in Elevator by James Lasdun
Rest for the Wicked by Glyn Maxwell
Selected Poems 1968-1986 by Paul Muldoon
The Annals of Chile by Paul Muldoon
Paul Muldoon by Tim Kendall
September 19, 1996: The Truth Teller
Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy by Carolyn Burke
The Lost Lunar Baedeker by Mina Loy, edited by Roger L. Conover
May 9, 1996: Worth a Thousand Words?
The Gazer's Spirit: Poems Speaking to Silent Works of Art by John Hollander
On the Laws of the Poetic Art (The A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1992) Bollingen Series XXXV: 41 by Anthony Hecht
May 11, 1995: Chronicles of Love and Loss
A Scattering of Salts by James Merrill
October 20, 1994: Death of a Soul
Scar Tissue by Michael Ignatieff
June 9, 1994: Breakfast with Miss Bishop
One Art: Letters by Elizabeth Bishop, selected and edited by Robert Giroux
February 3, 1994: Laura (Riding) Jackson (letter)
November 18, 1993: The White Goddess!
First Awakenings: The Early Poems of Laura Riding edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark, by Robert Nye
The Word 'Woman' and Other Related Writings by Laura (Riding) Jackson, edited by Elizabeth Friedmann, edited by Alan J. Clark
Four Unposted Letters to Catherine by Laura Riding, afterword by Elizabeth Friedmann, by Alan J. Clark
In Extremis: The Life of Laura Riding by Deborah Baker
August 13, 1992: Tireless Messenger
Provinces: Poems 1987–1991 by Czeslaw Milosz. Translated by the author, translated by Robert Hass
Beginning With My Streets: Essays and Recollections by Czeslaw Milosz, translated by Madeline G. Levine
The Poet's Work: An Introduction to Czeslaw Milosz by Leonard Nathan, by Arthur Quinn
November 21, 1991: Mapping the Air
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988–1991 by Adrienne Rich
Region of Unlikeness by Jorie Graham
March 28, 1991: Breath of Art
The Dead Girl by Melanie Thernstrom
August 16, 1990: Feminism and Literature: An Exchange
May 31, 1990: Feminism and Literature
Beyond Feminist Aesthetics: Feminist Literature and Social Change by Rita Felski
Women, Class, and the Feminist Imagination: A Socialist-Feminist Reader edited by Karen V. Hansen, edited by Ilene J. Philipson
Feminism/Postmodernism edited and with an introduction by Linda J. Nicholson
Women Writers of the Seventeenth Century edited by Katharina M. Wilson, edited by Frank J. Warnke
Eighteenth-Century Women Poets: An Oxford Anthology edited by Roger Lonsdale
Hamlet's Mother and Other Women by Carolyn G. Heilbrun
No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century Vol. I, The War of the Words Vol. II, Sexchanges by Sandra Gilbert, by Susan Gubar
Sexual Personae: Art and Decadence from Nefertiti to Emily Dickinson by Camille Paglia
August 17, 1989: Four Prized Poets
Blackbird Bye Bye by April Bernard
The Night Parade by Edward Hirsch
Acrimony by Michael Hofmann
The Daylight Moon and Other Poems by Les A. Murray
April 27, 1989: The Explorer
I. A. Richards: His Life and Work by John Paul Russo
September 29, 1988: New York Pastoral
Selected Poems by James Schuyler
April 28, 1988: Second Thoughts
The Haw Lantern by Seamus Heaney
May 7, 1987: Reading Wallace Stevens (letter)
November 20, 1986: The Hunting of Wallace Stevens
Wallace Stevens: A Mythology of Self by Milton J. Bates
Wallace Stevens: A Poet's Growth by George Lensing
Wallace Stevens: The Early Years, 1879–1923 by Joan Richardson
November 6, 1986: It Wasn't Knopf (letter)
October 23, 1986: In the Zoo of the New
The Triumph of Achilles by Louise Glück
Local Time by Stephen Dunn
Cats of the Temple by Brad Leithauser
Thomas and Beulah by Rita Dove
May 8, 1986: The Medley Is the Message
The Rustle of Language by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
The Responsibility of Forms: Critical Essays on Music, Art, and Representation by Roland Barthes, translated by Richard Howard
November 7, 1985: Looking for Poetry in America
Twentieth Century Pleasures: Prose on Poetry by Robert Hass
Local Assays: On Contemporary American Poetry by Dave Smith
American Poetry and Culture, 1945–1980 by Robert von Hallberg
April 11, 1985: Dear Delmore,
Letters of Delmore Schwartz selected and edited by Robert Phillips, foreword by Karl Shapiro
June 14, 1984: Making It New
A Wave by John Ashbery
March 29, 1984: Bishop's Prose Gift (letter)
February 16, 1984: Life Studies
The Collected Prose by Elizabeth Bishop, edited, with an introduction, by Robert Giroux
March 3, 1983: On the Thread of Language
The Kingfisher by Amy Clampitt
December 2, 1982: American Poet
Robert Lowell: A Biography by Ian Hamilton
September 23, 1982: The Creeping Griffon
Hundreds of Fireflies by Brad Leithauser
Monolithos: Poems, 1962 and 1982 by Jack Gilbert
March 4, 1982: Poet of Two Worlds
The Fortunate Traveller by Derek Walcott
December 17, 1981: All Too Real
Work, for the Night Is Coming by Jared Carter
A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981 by Adrienne Rich
One for the Rose by Philip Levine
July 16, 1981: Sociable Comets
Shadow Train by John Ashbery
Descending Figure by Louise Glück
February 19, 1981: A Room of Her Own
Women Writers and Poetic Identity: Dorothy Wordsworth, Emily Brontë, and Emily Dickinson by Margaret Homans
November 6, 1980: Trouble at B.U. (cont'd) (letter)
June 12, 1980: Academic Freedom at BU (letter)
April 17, 1980: The Elusiveness of a Life (letter)
February 7, 1980: Poet's Gallery
Dreams in the Mirror: A Biography of E.E. Cummings by Richard S. Kennedy
Frank O'Hara: Poet Among Painters by Marjorie Perloff
May 3, 1979: James Merrill's Myth: An Interview
March 22, 1979: Lowell Criticism (letter)
February 8, 1979: Pudding Stone
Robert Lowell: Life and Art by Steven Gould Axelrod
November 24, 1977: The Wonder Man
I Never Told Anybody: Teaching Poetry Writing in a Nursing Home by Kenneth Koch
The Duplications by Kenneth Koch
September 30, 1976: Myths for Mothers
Of Woman Born: Motherhood as Experience and Institution by Adrienne Rich
March 18, 1976: News from the Muse
Divine Comedies by James Merrill
November 13, 1975: Art, Life & Dr. Williams
William Carlos Williams: The Knack of Survival in America by Robert Coles
William Carlos Williams: Poet from Jersey by Reed Whittemore
The Embodiment of Knowledge by William Carlos Williams, edited by Ron Loewinsohn
Books by Helen Vendler
Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath (2003)
Seamus Heaney (1998)
The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997)
Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology (1997)
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (1995)
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry (1995)
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition (1995)
The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics (1988)
Voices & Visions: the Poet in America (1987)
The Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1986)
The Harvard Book of Contemporary American Poetry (1985)
Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)
The Odes of John Keats (1983)
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets (1980)
The Poetry of George Herbert (1975)
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems (1969)
Yeat's Vision and the Later Plays (1963)