Helen Vendler
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Boston University
Cornell University
Swarthmore College
Smith College | doctoral_students = | notable_students = | main_interests = Emily Dickinson, George Herbert, John Keats, Seamus Heaney, Wallace Stevens, W. B. Yeats, William Shakespeare | notable_works = | notable_ideas = | influenced = | signature = | signature_alt = | signature_size = | footnotes = | awards = Fulbright Scholarship, 1954
James Russell Lowell Prize of the Modern Language Association (MLA), 1969
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, 1970
Metcalf Cup & Prize, Boston University, 1975
National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism, 1980
Truman Capote Award for Literary Criticism, Iowa Writers' Workshop, at the University of Iowa, 1996
Charles Homer Haskins Lecture, American Council of Learned Societies, 2001
Jefferson Lecture in the Humanities, National Endowment for the Humanities, 2004
Don M. Randel Award for Humanistic Studies, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2013
Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2023 }}
Helen Vendler (née Hennessy; April 30, 1933 – April 23, 2024) was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities. Her academic focus was critical analysis of poetry and she studied poets from Shakespeare and George Herbert to modern poets such as Wallace Stevens and Seamus Heaney. Her technique was close reading, which she described as "reading from the point of view of a writer".
Vendler reviewed poetry regularly for periodicals including ''The New Yorker'' and ''The New York Review of Books''. She was also a regular judge for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and so was influential in determining writers' reputation and success. Provided by Wikipedia
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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Wallace Stevens : words chosen out of desire / by Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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The music of what happens : poems, poets, critics / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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The art of Shakespeare's sonnets / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Seamus Heaney / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Part of nature, part of us : modern American poets / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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The breaking of style : Hopkins, Heaney, Graham / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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The given and the made : strategies of poetic redefinition / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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On extended wings : Wallace Stevens' longer poems / by Helen Hennessy Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Coming of age as a poet : Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Invisible listeners : lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Our secret discipline : Yeats and lyric form / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-
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Invisible listeners : lyric intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024
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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024
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Poets thinking : Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats / Helen Vendler. by Vendler, Helen, 1933-2024
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Dickinson : selected poems and commentaries / Helen Vendler. by Dickinson, Emily, 1830-1886
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Poems, poets, poetry : an introduction and anthology / [edited by] Helen Vendler.
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Poems / Stevens ; selected by Helen Vendler. by Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955
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The Harvard book of contemporary American poetry / edited by Helen Vendler.
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