The music of what happens : poems, poets, critics

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The music of what happens : poems, poets, critics

Helen Vendler

Harvard University Press, 1988

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  • : pbk

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: hbk ISBN 9780674591523

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Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem Among School Children. View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course.
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: pbk ISBN 9780674591530

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Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show-lucidly and invitingly-just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Part I: On Criticism 1. The Function of Criticism 2. Looking for Poetry in America 3. Critical Models: On Geoffrey Hartman 4. Defensive Harmonies: On Harold Bloom 5. The Medley Is the Message: On Roland Barthes 6. The Hunting of Wallace Stevens: Critical Approaches Part II: On Poetry 7. Lionel Trilling and Wordsworth's Immortality Ode 8. Keats and the Use of Poetry 9. Reading Walt Whitman Part III: On Poets 10. Seamus Heaney 11. Stephen Spender: Journals and Poems 12. Donald Davie: Self-Portraits in Verse 13. Ted Hughes 14. Czeslaw Milosz 15. John Ashbery, Louise Gluck 16. Allen Ginsberg 17. Sylvia Plath 18. Elizabeth Bishop 19. Anne Sexton 20. A. R. Ammons: Dwelling in the Flow of Shapes Part IV: Recent Writing 21. James Merrill 22. Adrienne Rich, Jared Carter, Philip Levine 23. Charles Wright 24. Amy Clampitt 25. Dave Smith 26. Frank Bidart 27. Michael Blumenthal 28. Louise Gluck, Stephen Dunn, Brad Leithauser,

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