• 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...
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  • Vendler is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Helen Vendler (1933–2024), American critic of poetry Zeno Vendler (1921–2004), Hungarian-born...
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    Benjamin, E. O. Wilson, John Rawls, Emily Dickinson, Stephen Jay Gould, Helen Vendler, Carol Gilligan, Amartya Sen, David Blight, Martha Nussbaum, and Thomas...
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    poets, critics and scholars, including Kathleen Spivack, James Atlas, Helen Vendler, and Dudley Young, have written essays about Lowell's teaching style...
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  • the fourth book of poems by Robert Lowell. Most critics (including Helen Vendler, Steven Gould Axelrod, Adam Kirsch, and others) consider it one of Lowell's...
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    first published in 1891 in the second collection of Dickinson's poems. Helen Vendler regards the poem as a "bizarre little narrative" but one that typifies...
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    engages in an argument with the youth regarding procreation. Scholar Helen Vendler sums up Sonnet 1: "The different rhetorical moments of this sonnet (generalizing...
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    lies,                         Fallen cold and dead. Literary critic Helen Vendler thinks it likely that Whitman wrote the poem before "When Lilacs Last...
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    of the compelling quality of the emotional union of "true minds". As Helen Vendler has observed, "This famous almost 'impersonal' sonnet on the marriage...
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    fleeing the 1971 Bangladeshi genocide, exemplifying what literary critic Helen Vendler described as Ginsberg's persistent opposition to "imperial politics"...
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    2307/1208735. JSTOR 1208735. Helen Vendler, Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (2010) Helen Vendler, The Music of What Happens:...
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    Harvard University houses it. In her analysis of the poem, scholar Helen Vendler, states that the opening foot of the poem is "reversed," adding more...
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  • University to study English, French, and Russian literature and poetry with Helen Vendler at Harvard. Newley was a television presenter and recording artist in...
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    the final stanzas, the figure of Poesy is described as a daemon which Helen Vendler suggests poses a direct threat to the idleness the poet wishes to retain...
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    is at most a faint hint of Keats's own possible fear. According to Helen Vendler, "To Autumn" may be seen as an allegory of artistic creation. As the...
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    Libraries Catalog. Web. 29 October 2012 Vendler, Helen, and Helen Vendler. The Art Of Shakespeare's Sonnets / Helen Vendler. n.p.: Cambridge, Massachusetts :...
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  • 1995–2011). Tom Tischinski, 79, American baseball player (Minnesota Twins). Helen Vendler, 90, American literary critic. Ron Cerrudo, 79, American golfer. Bob...
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  • Franklin, Anthony Grafton, Enrique Krauze, Ryan Lizza, Sacha Z. Scoblic, Helen Vendler, Sean Wilentz). In all, two-thirds of the names on the editorial masthead...
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    Shuppan, 2007. 59–68. Vendler, Helen. On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems Harvard University Press (1969) Vendler, Helen. Wallace Stevens: Words...
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  • Senate (b. 1934) 2024 – Frank Field, British politician (b. 1942) 2024 – Helen Vendler, American Literary Critic (b. 1933) Christian feast day: Adalbert of...
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  • for what I call pig consciousness—wallowing in mud and loving it". Helen Vendler considered that something of the kind happened to Seamus Heaney when...
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    think that my love is as rare as any woman belied by false compare." Helen Vendler, who is also referenced in Steele's article states that the final couplet...
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    available to the public. In an outraged piece for The New Republic, Helen Vendler labeled the drafts "maimed and stunted" and rebuked Farrar, Straus and...
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    Volume 117 Number 340 (October 1923) Vendler, Helen. On Extended Wings. 1969: Harvard University Press. Vendler, Helen. Words Chosen Out Of Desire. 1984:...
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    but a "thinking reed" (in contrast to a "thinking stone", as critic Helen Vendler has observed, noting the influence of a Wallace Stevens lyric, "Le Monocle...
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    1993 A Stranger in the Mirror Alice Tanner TV film 1998 Air America Helen Vendler Episode: "The Hit" 1999–2008 Passions Tabitha Lenox Main role (990 episodes)...
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    nineteenth-century America's leading poet after Whitman and Dickinson" and Helen Vendler remarked of Clarel: "What it cost Melville to write this poem makes...
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  • Kentucky House of Representatives (1985–1991, 1995–2011) (b. 1929) Helen Vendler, 90, literary critic (b. 1933) April 24 Ron Cerrudo, 79, golfer (b....
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    into action –such as Shakespeare calling his memories to his mind. Helen Vendler also notes that there is slight pause in the phrase "sessions of sweet...
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  • understanding Mirabell because of its allusive density, but the critic Helen Vendler argues that "the test of such a poem is not in the first reading .....
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