Something Understood: Essays and Poetry for Helen Vendler

by Stephanie Burt

Book Overview

Helen Vendler may be America?s most important poetry critic. A winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, Vendler has remained a key figure in the academy while also teaching a much larger public how to read and enjoy poems and poetry through her many articles for the New Yorker, the New York Times Book Review, the New Republic, and the New York Review of Books. With Something Understood, some of the most important poets, critics, and scholars...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813927854
• ISBN13: 9780813927855
• Release Date: May 2009
• Publisher: University of Virginia Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.0" x 9.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher