Charmed Quarantine
James Wood, 21 March 1996
Soul Says: On Recent Poetry
by Helen Vendler.
Harvard, 266 pp., £15.95, June 1995,0 674 82146 7 Show More
by Helen Vendler.
Harvard, 266 pp., £15.95, June 1995,
The Breaking of Style: Hopkins, Heaney, Graham
by Helen Vendler.
Harvard, 100 pp., £18.95, January 1996,0 674 08121 8 Show More
by Helen Vendler.
Harvard, 100 pp., £18.95, January 1996,
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition
by Helen Vendler.
Faber, 137 pp., £7.99, April 1995,0 571 17078 1 Show More
by Helen Vendler.
Faber, 137 pp., £7.99, April 1995,
“... not want to obstruct her predictions. For Jarrell, these poets were his contemporaries – Lowell, Moore, Bishop, Berryman and Stevens. When Jarrell writes that he is living in a time of great poetry, it is as if he is not merely describing but claiming something. Vendler’s belief in her contemporaries – that, as she has put it, ‘American poetry remains ... ”