Seamus Heaney (Modern Masters)

Helen Vendler

Literature & Fiction

Fontana Press

Written by a preeminent critic and legendary teacher, this text and anthology presents the incisive, practical methods of reading and writing that Helen Vendler has used for decades to demystify poetry for her students and introduce them to its artistry and pleasures.

Poems, Poets, Poetry: Resources for Teaching

History & Criticism

St.Martin's Press

WAYS TO READ AND UNDERSTAND POEMS WITH THE PLEASURE THEY DESERVE

Poems, Poets, Poetry: An Introduction and Anthology

Poetry

Bedford/St.Martins

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, John Keats, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath, Coming of Age as a Poet offers rare insight into this mysterious process, and into the indispensable period of learning and experimentation that precedes such poetic achievement. 
 Milton's L'Allegro, Keats's On First Looking into Chapman's Homer, Eliot's The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, and Plath's The Colossus are the poems that Helen Vendler considers, exploring each as an accession to poetic confidence, mastery, and maturity. In meticulous and sympathetic readings of the poems, and with reference to earlier youthful compositions, she delineates the context and the terms of each poet's self-discovery--and illuminates the private, intense, and ultimately heroic effort and endurance that precede the creation of any memorable poem. 
 With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps us to appreciate anew the conception and the practice of poetry, and to observe at first hand the living organism that breathes through the words of a great poem.

Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

Harvard University Press

The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition

Harvard Univ Pr

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