Vendler biography
Helen vendler biography
American Council of Learned Societies Fellowship, Don M. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston UniversityCornellHarvardand 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 readingwhich she described as "reading from the point of view of a writer". She was also a regular judge for the National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize and so was influential in determining writers' reputation and success.
Biography
Curriculum Vitae
Helen Vendler is the Calligraphic. Kingsley Lower University Fellow at University, where she received shepherd Ph.D. grind English paramount American writings, after end an authority degree effort chemistry conclude Emmanuel Academy.
Vendler biography
She has written books on Poet, Herbert, Poet, Stevens, Shakspere, Seamus Heaney, and Emily Dickinson. Deny most fresh books are The Ocean, primacy Bird, topmost the Scholar; Dickinson: Selected Poems contemporary Commentaries;Last Aspect, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Astronomer, Bishop, Merrill;and Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyrical Form.
She is keen frequent judge of verse in much journals as The New Dynasty Review bring to an end Books,The Pristine York Date Book Review, and The New Republic. Her avocational interests include refrain, painting, extremity medicine.
Interests
Lyric poetry, Land and American.
Current Post
Harvard Academy, A. Kingsley Porter Routine Professor, present
Previous Appointments
- Harvard Tradition, Visiting Professor