Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler, the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University, is one of the most influential critics of contemporary poetry in the United States. Her books include Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire; The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, and Critics; Seamus Heaney; and Yeat’s Vision and the Later Plays.
A distinguished scholar, she has published acclaimed books on the odes of Keats and on the sonnets of Shakespeare, as well as reviews for The New Yorker, The New Republic, and The New York Review of Books.
Helen Vendler elsewhere on Lannan.org
Helen Vendler, 2003, (Events)Czeslaw Milosz with Helen Vendler, 1998, (Events)
Helen Vendler Lannan Podcast Episodes
Helen Vendler, Reading, 22 Jan 2003 - AudioCzeslaw Milosz in conversation with Helen Vendler, 26 Mar 1998 - Video
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