Something understood
Subtitle: essays and poetry for Helen Vendler
By: edited by Stephen Burt and Nick Halpern.
Contributors: Burt, Stephen.; Halpern, Nick.
Publisher: University of Virginia Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Charlottesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 335
ISBN-13: 9780813927848; 9780813927855
Subjects: Vendler, Helen Hennessy -- Criticism and interpretation; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Self in literature
Description: Helen Vendler may be America's most revered poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poetry through her many articles for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and the New York Review of Books. With Something Understood, some of the most important poets, critics, and scholars in the United states, the United Kingdom, and Ireland pay tribute to five decades of Vendler's work. Included here are new poems, written especially for this volume, from such luminaries as Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney, former U.S. poet laureate Rita Dove, and Pulitzer Prize winner Charles Wright. The essays, also exclusive to this book, address a spectrum of issues, from the vastness of the poetic tradition to poetry's irreducible building blocks. -- Back cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.