- The Breaking of Style
- Helen Vendler
- Opening fresh perspectives on the work of three very different poets, Helen Vendler's masterful study of changes in style yields a new view of the interplay of moral, emotional, and intellectual forces in a poet's work. Throughout, Vendler reminds us that what distinguishes successful poetry is a mastery of language at all levels--including the rhythmic, the grammatical, and the graphic.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback
- Coming of Age as a Poet
- Helen Vendler
- 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.
- Hardcover 2003 / Paperback 2004
- The Gardens of Emily Dickinson
- Judith Farr
- Louise Carter, Contributor
- In this first substantial study of Emily Dickinson's devotion to flowers and gardening, Farr seeks to join both poet and gardener in one creative personality. She casts new light on Dickinson's temperament, her aesthetic sensibility, and her vision of the relationship between art and nature, revealing that the gardener's intimate understanding of horticulture helped shape the poet's choice of metaphors for every experience. A chapter by Louise Carter hypothesizes Dickinson's methods of gardening, explaining how one might grow her flowers today.
- Hardcover 2004 / Paperback 2005
- The Given and the Made
- Helen Vendler
- To explore how a poet repeatedly makes art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate, Helen Vendler looks at the work of four American poets--Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Rita Dove and Jorie Graham--and suggests a new way of understanding poetic strategies.
- Paperback 1995 / Hardcover 1995
- John Keats 1795-1995
- Preface by Richard Wendorf
- Contributions by Helen Vendler
- Contributions by William H. Bond
- A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition "John Keats and the Exaltation of a Genius" at Houghton Library in 1995 and of the John Keats Bicentennial Conference. The catalog includes a preface by Richard Wendorf, and essays by Helen Vendler and William H. Bond.
- Paperback 2005
- The Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson
- R. W. Franklin, Editor
- Dickinson's poems, more than those of any other poet, resist translation into the medium of print. This elegant edition presents all of her manuscript books and unsewn fascicle sheets--1,148 poems on 1,250 pages--restored insofar as possible to their original order. The manuscripts are reproduced with startling fidelity in 300-line screen.
- Hardcover 1981
- Poems (3 volume boxed set)
- Emily Dickinson
- Thomas H. Johnson, Editor
- Hardcover
- The Poems of Emily Dickinson
- Emily Dickinson
- R. W. Franklin, Editor
- Emily Dickinson died without fame; but she left behind an astonishing body of work, much of which has since appeared in piecemeal editions, sometimes with words altered by editors or publishers according to the fashion of the day. Now Ralph Franklin, the foremost scholar of Dickinson's manuscripts, has prepared an authoritative one-volume edition of all extant poems by Emily Dickinson--1,789 poems in all, the largest number ever assembled--rendered with Dickinson's spelling, punctuation, and capitalization intact.
- Hardcover 1999 / Paperback 2005
- Shifting Ground
- Bonnie Costello
- Just as the look of the American landscape has changed since the nineteenth century, so has our idea of landscape. Here Bonnie Costello reads six twentieth-century American poets who have reflected and shaped this transformation and in the process renovated landscape by drawing new images from the natural world and creating new forms for imagining the earth and our relation to it.
- Hardcover 2003
- Songs of Ourselves
- Joan Shelley Rubin
- In a strikingly original and rich portrait of the uses of verse in America, Rubin shows how the sites and practices of reciting poetry influenced readers' lives and helped them to find meaning in a poet's words. By blurring the boundaries between "high" and "popular" poetry as well as between modern and traditional, it creates a fuller, more democratic way of studying our poetic language and ourselves.
- Hardcover 2007
- Soul Says
- Helen Vendler
- In these eloquent essays on recent American, British, and Irish poetry, Helen Vendler shows us contemporary life and culture captured in lyric form by some of our most celebrated poets. An incomparable reader of poetry, Vendler explains its power; it is, she says, the voice of the soul, rather than the socially marked self, speaking directly to us through the stylization of verse.
- Hardcover 1995 / Paperback 1996
- To Be the Poet
- Maxine Hong Kingston
- "I have almost finished my longbook," Maxine Hong Kingston declares. "Let my life as Poet begin...I won't be a workhorse anymore; I'll be a skylark." To Be the Poet is Kingston's manifesto, the avowal and declaration of a writer who has devoted a good part of her sixty years to writing prose, and who, over the course of this spirited and inspiring book, works out what the rest of her life will be, in poetry.
- Hardcover 2002