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The fundamental difference between rhetoric and poetry, according to Yeats, is that rhetoric is the expression of ones quarrels with others while poetry is the
The Breaking of Style
Language: en
Pages: 116
Authors: Helen Vendler
Categories: Language Arts & Disciplines
Type: BOOK - Published: 1995 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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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, Vend
The Music of what Happens
Language: en
Pages: 494
Authors: Helen Vendler
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1988 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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This is a collection of previously published book reviews of modern poetry. The poets discussed include John Ashbery, Donald Davie, Allen Ginsberg, Seamus Heane
Poets Thinking
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Authors: Helen Vendler
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2009-06-30 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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Poetry has often been considered an irrational genre, more expressive than logical, more meditative than given to coherent argument. And yet, in each of the fou
Part of Nature, Part of Us
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Pages: 394
Authors: Helen Vendler
Categories: Literary Criticism
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A collection of book reviews and essays on more than forty modern American poets.