Part of Nature, Part of Us

Modern American Poets

Helen Vendler

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$50.00 • £43.95 • €45.95

ISBN 9780674654761

Publication Date: 01/01/1980

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390 pages

5-3/4 x 9 inches

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The poets nearest to us in time often seem the most remote and difficult. Helen Vendler closes the distance. She keeps the poet in view not only as thinker and artist, but as a man or woman whose humanity never disappears in her analysis. With her penetrating critical gift, Vendler assesses American poets from T. S. Eliot to Charles Wright.

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1980 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism

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