Helen Vendler AKA Helen Hennessy Born: 30-Apr-1933 Birthplace: Boston, MA
Gender: Female Race or Ethnicity: White Sexual orientation: Straight Occupation: Critic Nationality: United States Executive summary: American poetry critic Husband: Zeno Vendler (Hungarian philosopher, b. 1921, d. 2004, one son)
University: BS Chemisty, Emmanuel College Boston University: University of Louvain (on a Fulbright scholarhip) Professor: Harvard University (1981-)
American Academy of Arts and Letters Fulbright
Author of books:
Yeats's Vision and the Later Plays (1963) On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems (1969) The Poetry of George Herbert (1975) Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets (1980) The Odes of John Keats (1983) Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984) The Music of What Happens: Essays on Poetry and Criticism (1988) Soul Says: On Recent Poetry (1995) The Given and the Made: Lowell, Berryman, Dove, Graham (1995) The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham (1995) The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997) Seamus Heaney (1998) Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath (2003)
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