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.

Helen Vendler has become one of our most trusted companions in reading poetry. Among critics today she has an unrivaled ability to show--lucidly and invitingly--just what a poem does. Insight and wit distinguish these essays, in which Vendler elucidates the function of criticism as well as different critical methods and styles. Poets commented on range from Seamus Heaney and Czeslaw Milosz to Silvia Plath, James Merrill, and Amy Clampitt.

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
• On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens' Longer Poems
• 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
• 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