{"title":"Helen Vendler","description":"\u003cp\u003eHelen Vendler’s work offers a profound exploration of poetry and its enduring significance within \u003cstrong\u003eArts \u0026amp; Culture\u003c\/strong\u003e. Her insightful analyses invite readers to delve deep into the nuances of poetic expression, enriching their appreciation of celebrated poets such as Emily Dickinson.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThrough her meticulous criticism, Vendler illuminates the intricacies of language and form, making her books essential for those who seek a thoughtful engagement with poetry and literary tradition. Her writing blends scholarly rigour with accessible prose, appealing to both seasoned readers and newcomers alike.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dickinson-by-helen-vendler-9780674066380","title":"Dickinson","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSeamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised \u003cstrong\u003eHelen Vendler\u003c\/strong\u003e as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in \u003cem\u003eThe Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets\u003c\/em\u003e, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn selecting these poems for commentary, Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson's work as a poet, \"from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.\" Included here are many expected favourites as well as more complex and less often anthologised poems. Taken together, Vendler's selection reveals Emily Dickinson's development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called \"the history and science of feeling.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn accompanying commentaries, Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, \"the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.\" All of Dickinson's preoccupations—death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought—are explored here in detail. Vendler always takes care to emphasise the poet's startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favourites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as \"a master\" of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. \u003cem\u003eDickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries\u003c\/em\u003e will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47536542941420,"sku":"9780674066380","price":75.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780674066380-dickinson.jpg?v=1776382684"},{"product_id":"the-art-of-shakespeares-sonnets-by-helen-vendler-9780674637122","title":"The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHelen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, serves here as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eIn detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic features of the poems. She points out not only new levels of import in particular lines, but also the ways in which the four parts of each sonnet work together to enact emotion and create dynamic effect.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe commentaries—presented alongside the original and modernized texts—offer fresh perspectives on the individual poems and, taken together, provide a full picture of Shakespeare's techniques as a working poet. With the help of Vendler's acute eye, we gain an appreciation of \u003cem\u003eShakespeare’s elated variety of invention, his ironic capacity, his astonishing refinement of technique, and, above all, the reach of his skeptical imaginative intent\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47537055006956,"sku":"9780674637122","price":104.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/85d788c23d6f22047f51579a9a188a54.jpg?v=1776902649"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/collections\/helen-vendler.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}