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The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar Author: Helen Vendler

ISBN: 9780674736566 Format: Hardcover Number Of Pages: 452 Published: 11 May 2015 Country of Publication: US Dimensions (cm): 24.4 x 16.1 x 3.9 Description:

One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets.The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose-including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture-in a single volume. Taken together, they serve as a reminder that if the arts and the patina of culture they cast over the world were deleted, we would, in Wallace Stevens's memorable formulation, inhabit "a geography of the dead." These essays also remind us that without the enthusiasm, critiques, and books of each century's scholars, there would be imperfect perpetuation and transmission of culture.

All of the modern poets who have long preoccupied Vendler-Wallace Stevens, Seamus Heaney, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham-are fully represented, as well as others, including Langston Hughes, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Amy Clampitt, James Merrill, A. R. Ammons, and Mark Ford. And Vendler reaches back into the poetic tradition, tracing the influence of Keats, Yeats, Whitman, T. S. Eliot, and o...

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