• Winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize and the Explicator Prize

Photo of Helen Vendler: Mary Lee

Helen Vendler is A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.

Read More by Helen Vendler:

• Seamus Heaney
• The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets
• The Odes of John Keats
• Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
• Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen out of Desire
• John Keats: Poetry Manuscripts at Harvard, a Facsimile Edition
• The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
• The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
• The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics
• Soul Says: On Recent Poetry
• The Poetry of George Herbert
• Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath
• Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats
• Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form
• John Keats 1795-1995: With a catalogue of the Harvard Keats Collection