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Description - The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar by Helen Vendler

A Times Higher Education Book of the Week

One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth- and twentieth-century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose-including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture-in a single volume.

"It's one of [Vendler's] finest books, an impressive summation of a long, distinguished career in which she revisits many of the poets she has venerated over a lifetime and written about previously. Reading it, one can feel her happiness in doing what she loves best. There is scarcely a page in the book where there isn't a fresh insight about a poet or poetry."
-Charles Simic, New York Review of Books

"Vendler has done perhaps more than any other living critic to shape-I might almost say 'create'-our understanding of poetry in English."
-Joel Brouwer, New York Times Book Review

"Poems are artifacts and [Vendler] shows us, often thrillingly, how those poems she considers the best specimens are made A reader feels that she has thoroughly absorbed her subjects and conveys her understanding with candor, clarity, wit."
-John Greening, Times Literary Supplement

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