{"product_id":"the-ocean-the-bird-and-the-scholar-essays-on-poets-and-poetry-9780674984080","title":"The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"One of [Vendler's] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career.\"\u003cbr\u003e--Charles Simic, \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eTimes Higher Education\u003c\/i\u003e Book of the Week.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eA lively collection of the great critic's later work showcases her unswerving and deeply personal dedication to good poetry. \u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eOne of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. \u003ci\u003eThe Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAll 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 others in the work of today's poets. As ever, her readings help to clarify the imaginative novelty of poems, giving us a rich sense not only of their formal aspects but also of the passions underlying their linguistic and structural invention. \u003ci\u003eThe Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar\u003c\/i\u003e is an eloquent plea for the centrality, both in humanistic study and modern culture, of poetry's beautiful, subversive, sustaining, and demanding legacy.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Helen Vendler\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Harvard University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 05\/14\/2018\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 464\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.20h x 6.10w x 1.20d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780674984080\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eVendler, Helen:\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e - Helen Vendler (1933-2024) was a leading poetry critic and the author of nineteen books on poets from William Shakespeare to Seamus Heaney. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, she contributed regularly to the \u003ci\u003eNew Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e, and the \u003ci\u003eNew Republic\u003c\/i\u003e. She was the Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43128127291507,"sku":"9.78067E+12","price":29.95,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/files\/img_359e30f5-5d81-45b3-be55-dd3c40eaa848.jpg?v=1749731310","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/en-de\/products\/the-ocean-the-bird-and-the-scholar-essays-on-poets-and-poetry-9780674984080","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}