‘No Poetry You Have Read’
Herman Melville: Complete Poems
edited by Hershel Parker
December 5, 2019 issue
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Helen Vendler is the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor Emerita in the Department of English at Harvard. Her latest book is The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar, a collection of essays. (December 2019)
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