The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar : : Essays on Poets and Poetry /

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar : : Essays on Poets and Poetry / / Helen Vendler.

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week 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, an...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Vendler, Helen,
Place / Publishing House:Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Edition:Pilot project. eBook available to selected US libraries only
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Introduction
  • 1 The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar.How the Arts Help Us to Live
  • 2. Fin-de-Siècle Lyric. W. B. Yeats and Jorie Graham
  • 3. The Unweary Blues. The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
  • 4. The Nothing That Is. Chickamauga, by Charles Wright
  • 5. American X-Rays. Forty Years of Allen Ginsberg’s Poetry
  • 6. The Waste Land. Fragments and Montage
  • 7. The Snow Poems and Garbage. Episodes in A. R. Ammons’s Poetics
  • 8. All Her Nomads. Collected Poems, by Amy Clampitt
  • 9. Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia. “Mycenae Lookout” and the Usefulness of Tradition
  • 10. Melville. The Lyric of History
  • 11. Lowell’s Persistence. The Forms Depression Makes
  • 12. Wallace Stevens. Hypotheses and Contradictions, Dedicated to Paul Alpers
  • 13. Ardor and Artifice. Merrill’s Mozartian Touch
  • 14. The Titles. A. R. Ammons, 1926–2001
  • 15. Poetry and the Mediation of Value. Whitman on Lincoln
  • 16. “Long Pig”. The Interconnection of the Exotic, the Dead, and the Fantastic in the Poetry of Elizabeth Bishop
  • 17. Stevens and Keats’s “To Autumn”. Reworking the Past
  • 18. “The Circulation of Small Largenesses”. Mark Ford and John Ashbery
  • 19. Wallace Stevens. Memory, Dead and Alive
  • 20. Jorie Graham. The Moment of Excess
  • 21. Attention, Shoppers. Where Shall I Wander, by John Ashbery
  • 22. Seamus Heaney’s “Sweeney Redivivus”. Its Plot and Its Poems
  • 23. The Democratic Eye. A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery
  • 24. Losing the Marbles: James Merrill on Greece
  • 25. Mark Ford: Intriguing, Funny, Prophetic
  • 26. Notes from the Trepidarium. Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido
  • 27. Pried Open for All the World to See. Berryman the Poet
  • Notes
  • Credits
  • Ac know ledg ments
  • Index

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