Struggling as a single mother in 1967 to raise a son on scant funds while teaching 10 college courses a year, Helen Vendler realized that “the only way I could make my life easier was to give up ...

A couple of years ago, I tried to assign a profile of the great poetry critic Helen Vendler, who died last week, at 90. The profile didn’t work out, because Vendler wouldn’t agree to more than a ...

When the world feels brittle, reading a poem can become a radical act. Lately I've been carrying around two new books: Mark Vernon's "Awake: William Blake and the Power of the Imagination" (Hurst, ...

In an otherwise perceptive review of two books (“A Few Lasting Words,” Books, Dec. 27), Micah Mattix goes too far in contending that Helen Vendler’s final collection, “Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays,” ...

In her recent essay “Valuing the Creative and Reflective,” written for the benefit of Harvard’s admissions committee, A. Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler urges Harvard to reevaluate ...

In a recent issue of the New York Review of Books, venerable critic and longtime Harvard professor Helen Vendler panned a new anthology of 20th-century American poetry edited by former U.S. poet ...

In the sixties, three scholarly biographies of Keats appeared within a short time: W.J. Bate’s and Aileen Ward’s in 1963, Robert Gittings’s in 1968. Each is still very useful; all were admirable, if ...

For over a decade, in journals as diverse as the New Yorker and the Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Helen Vendler`s criticism has been a controversial and persistent reminder ...

Brett Millier’s new biography of the American poet Elizabeth Bishop (1911-79) is a substantial one, adding extensively to the biographical material provided by David Kalstone in Becoming a Poet ...