Helen Vendler
1933 - 2024
General Information
Bio
- Helen Vendler (1933-2024) Professor, poetry critic. Helen Vendler was born in Boston, Massachusetts, and died in Laguna Niguel, California.
Full Name
Helen Vendler
Locations
Onondaga
Author's Timeline
1933
Birth
Helen Vendler was born Helen Hennessy in Boston, Massachusetts, on April 30, 1933.
1963
Literary Work
Yeats’s ‘Vision’ and the Later Plays
Harvard University Press
0674864700 / 978-0674864702
Nonfiction.
Harvard University Press
0674864700 / 978-0674864702
Nonfiction.
0000
Other Life Event
Onondaga County: Ms. Vendler taught for a time at Cornell University in Syracuse, New York.
1969
Literary Work
On Extended Wings: Wallace Stevens’ Longer Poems
Harvard University Press
0674634357 / 978-0674634350
Criticism.
Harvard University Press
0674634357 / 978-0674634350
Criticism.
1975
Literary Work
The Poetry of George Herbert
Harvard University Press
0674679598 / 978-0674679597
Criticism.
Harvard University Press
0674679598 / 978-0674679597
Criticism.
1980
Literary Work
Part of Nature, Part of Us: Modern American Poets
Harvard University Press
0674654757 / 978-0674654754
Collection of essays and reviews.
Harvard University Press
0674654757 / 978-0674654754
Collection of essays and reviews.
1988
Literary Work
The Music of What Happens: Poems, Poets, Critics
Harvard University Press
0674591526 / 978-0674591523
Collection of essays and reviews.
Harvard University Press
0674591526 / 978-0674591523
Collection of essays and reviews.
1995
Literary Work
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
Harvard University Press
067408120X / 978-0674081208
Criticism.
Harvard University Press
067408120X / 978-0674081208
Criticism.
1995
Literary Work
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
Harvard University Press
067435432X / 978-0674354326
Criticism.
Harvard University Press
067435432X / 978-0674354326
Criticism.
1996
Literary Work
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry
Belknap Press
0674821467 / 978-0674821460
Collection of essays and reviews.
Belknap Press
0674821467 / 978-0674821460
Collection of essays and reviews.
2010
Literary Work
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Princeton University Press
0691145342 / 978-0691145341
Criticism.
Princeton University Press
0691145342 / 978-0691145341
Criticism.
2015
Literary Work
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets and Poetry
Harvard University Press
9780674736566 / 978-0674736566
Essays.
Harvard University Press
9780674736566 / 978-0674736566
Essays.
2024
Death
Helen Vendler died at her home in Laguna Niguel, California, on April 23, 2024.
2024
Interment
Helen Vendler was interred on “Harvard Hill” in Mount Auburn Cemetery, in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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