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Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler is an acclaimed American literary critic, poet, and professor, renowned for her insightful analyses of poetry. She has published several notable works including "Part of Nature, Part of Us: Maintaining a Romantic Poetry" and "Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats". Vendler's writing is characterized by its rigorous attention to language and form, as well as its philosophical depth, making her a prominent voice in contemporary literary criticism.
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- Authors
- Helen Vendler
- Published
- January 1980
- Publisher
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press
- ISBN
- N/A
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 402
- Genres
- Science and NatureEnvironmental Science
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