The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition

by Helen Vendler

Book Overview

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. How does a poet repeatedly make art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets--two men of the postwar generation, two young women writing today--Helen Vendler suggests a fruitful...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 067435432X
• ISBN13: 9780674354326
• Release Date: September 1995
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 138 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.2"