This all-new Signet Classic contains many of T.S. Eliot's most important early poems, leading to perhaps his greatest masterpiece, The Waste land, which has long been regarded as one of the fundamental texts of modernism. By combining poetic elements from many diverse sources with bits of popular cu[...]

To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem--a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style--is to come of age as a poet. By looking at the precedents, circumstances, and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, Joh[...]

Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler 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 "The Art of Shake[...]

Helen Vendler, widely regarded as our most accomplished interpreter of poetry, here serves as an incomparable guide to some of the best-loved poems in the English language. In detailed commentaries on Shakespeare's 154 sonnets, Vendler reveals previously unperceived imaginative and stylistic featur[...]

Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. To know the poetry of our time, to look through its lenses and filters, is to see our lives ill[...]

Presents 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson along with commentary on both the stylistic and imaginative features of the poems.[...]

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 Jef[...]

Helen Vendler may be America's most important poetry critic. Awinner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figurein the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poemsand poetry through her many articles for the New Yorker, the New York Ti[...]