Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology by Helen Vendler

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  • Pub. Date: October 2009
  • 752pp
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    • Pub. Date: October 2009
    • Publisher: Bedford/St. Martin's
    • Format: Paperback, 752pp
    • Sales Rank: 517,326

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    Many students today are puzzled by the meaning and purpose of poetry. Poems, Poets, Poetry demystifies the form and introduces students to its artistry and pleasures, using methods that Helen Vendler has successfully used herself over her long, celebrated career. Guided by Vendler’s erudite yet down-to-earth approach, students at all levels can benefit from her authoritative instruction. Her blend of new and canonical poets includes the broadest selection of new and multi-racial poets offered by any introductory text. Comprehensive and astute, this text engages students in effective ways of reading — and taking delight in — poetry.

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    HELEN VENDLER, critic and scholar of English-language poetry from the seventeenth century to the present, is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University–the first woman to hold a University Professorship, the highest academic distinction Harvard bestows. She was poetry critic of The New Yorker from 1978-1990, and was a member of the Pulitzer Prize Board from 1990-1999, often serving, before those years, on Pulitzer Prize juries for poetry. She has written ground-breaking scholarly studies on the work of William Butler Yeats, Wallace Stevens, George Herbert, John Keats, William Shakespeare, and Seamus Heaney, and has received the National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism in 1981, as well as the Truman Capote Prize and the Lowell Prize of the MLA. Her criticism has been collected in several volumes, including Part of Nature, Part of Us, The Music of What Happens, and Soul Says.

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    July 10, 2009: Helen Vendler's "Poems. Poets. Poetry" is by far the most illuminating and exciting analysis of poetry I have ever read.

    For many of my friends, form in poetry simply means stanzas whose lines, rhymed or unrhymed, are of fixed number and length. Her analysis is particularly valuable in that it also examines patterns less emphasized by other anthologies (if at all) such as the grammatical, syntactic, logical...patterns poets use to organize their thought and emotion into poems.