Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays
$43.25
- Hardcover
290 pages
- Release Date
7 October 2025
Summary
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 Plath.
Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience. Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler addresses the work of a wide range of American, English, and Irish poets—both the canonical an…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781598538274 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1598538276 |
| Author: | Helen Vendler |
| Publisher: | The Library of America |
| Imprint: | The Library of America |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 290 |
| Release Date: | 7 October 2025 |
| Weight: | 494g |
| Dimensions: | 30mm x 211mm x 201mm |
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“These sparkling essays take readers inside the lives and works of the poets you’ll encounter in this superb collection.” —Dayton Daily News
About The Author
Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler was the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard. Her many books of poetry criticism include The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997), Dickinson- Selected Poems and Commentaries (2010), and The Ocean, The Bird and The Scholar (2015). Her book Part of Nature- Modern American Poets (1980) won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism. In 2023, she was awarded a Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Vendler died of cancer at age 90, on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, April 23, 2024.
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