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Author:

Vendler, Helen, 1933- author.

Title:

The ocean, the bird and the scholar : essays on poets and poetry . Helen Vendler.

Edition:

First Harvard University Press paperback edition.

Publisher:

Harvard University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

viii, 444 pages ; 24 cm

Subject:

Poetics.
Poetry.
English poetry--19th century.
Poets, English--19th century.
American poetry--19th century.
Poets, American--19th century.
English poetry--20th century.
Poets, English--20th century.
American poetry--20th century.
Poets, American--20th century.
Essays.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 423-433) and index. Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

The Pried open for all the world to see: Berryman the poet. Fin-de-Siè̀̀cle lyric: W.B. Yeats and Jorie Graham -- The unweary blues: the collected poems of Langston Hughes -- The nothing that is: Chickamauga, by Charles Wright -- American X-rays: forty years of Allen Ginsberg's poetry -- The waste land: fragments and montage -- The snow poems and garbage: episodes in A.R. Ammons's poetics -- All her nomads: collected poems, by Amy Clampitt -- Seamus Heaney and the Oresteia: "Mycenae Lookout" and the usefulness of tradition -- Melville: the lyric of history -- Lowell's persistence: the forms depression makes -- Wallace Stevens: hypotheses and contradictions, dedicated to Paul Alpers -- Ardor and artifice: Merrill's Mozartian touch -- The titles: A.R. Ammons, 1926-2001 -- Poetry and the mediation of value: Whitman on Lincoln -- "Long pig": the interconnection of the exotic, the dead, and the fantastic in the poetry of Elizabeth Bishop -- Stevens and Keats's "To Autumn": reworking the past -- "The circulation of small largenesses": Mark Ford and John Ashbery -- Wallace Stevens: memory, dead and alive -- Jorie Graham: the moment of excess -- Attention, shoppers: Where shall I wander, by John Ashbery -- Seamus Heaney's "Sweeney Redivivus": its plot and its poems -- The democratic eye: A Worldly Country, by John Ashbery -- Losing the marbles: James Merrill on Greece -- Mark Ford: intriguing, funny, prophetic -- Notes from the trepidarium: Stay, Illusion, by Lucie Brock-Broido -- Pried open for all the world to see: Berryman the poet.

Summary:

Gathers two decades of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose.

ISBN:

9780674984080
0674984080

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1002827418

Locations:

BAPH771 -- Des Moines Public Library (Des Moines)