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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By: Helen Vendler

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By: Helen Vendler

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

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Harvard University Press

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0674637127

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9780674637122

Room 214: A Year in Poems

By: Helen Frost

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Engrossing tales from the fifth grade Every child is like A little world with ever-changing weather, Nights and mornings. And somehow, here we are, Spinning through the universe together. Unforgettable students in this fifth-grade classroom reveal their private feelings about birth and death, a missing bicycle and a first kiss, as well as their thoughts about recess, report cards, fitting in, and family. Using a rich array of traditional poetic forms, such as sonnets, sestinas, and acrostics, Helen Frost interweaves the stories of the kids in Room 214 and their teacher. A final section giving detailed analyses of the twenty-two forms will be of special interest.

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115

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Square Fish

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125013515X

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9781250135155

Coming of Age as a Poet

Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

By: Helen Vendler

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Coming of Age as a Poet

Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

By: Helen Vendler

With characteristic precision, authority, and grace, Vendler helps readers to appreciate the conception and practice of poetry as she explores four poets and their first "perfect" works. 4 halftones.

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198

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Harvard University Press

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0674010248

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9780674010246

Our Secret Discipline

Yeats and Lyric Form

By: Helen Vendler

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Yeats and Lyric Form

By: Helen Vendler

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 expression of ones quarrel with oneself. Through exquisite attention to outer and inner forms, Vendler explores the most inventive reaches of the poets mind.

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460

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Harvard University Press

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0674026950

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9780674026957

Keesha's House

By: Helen Frost

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Keesha's House

By: Helen Frost

An unforgettable narrative collage told in poems Keesha has found a safe place to live, and other kids gravitate to her house when they just can't make it on their own. They are Stephie – pregnant, trying to make the right decisions for herself and those she cares about; Jason – Stephie's boyfriend, torn between his responsibility to Stephie and the baby and the promise of a college basketball career; Dontay – in foster care while his parents are in prison, feeling unwanted both inside and outside the system; Carmen – arrested on a DUI charge, waiting in a juvenile detention center for a judge to hear her case; Harris – disowned by his father after disclosing that he's gay, living in his car, and taking care of himself; Katie – angry at her mother's loyalty to an abusive stepfather, losing herself in long hours of work and school. Stretching the boundaries of traditional poetic forms – sestinas and sonnets – Helen Frost's extraordinary debut novel for young adults weaves together the stories of these seven teenagers as they courageously struggle to hold their lives together and overcome their difficulties. Keesha's House is a 2004 Bank Street - Best Children's Book of the Year.

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136

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Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)

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1466896329

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9781466896321

Seamus Heaney

By: Helen Vendler

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Seamus Heaney

By: Helen Vendler

Join Professor Helen Vendler in her course lecture on the Yeats poem "Among School Children." View her insightful and passionate analysis along with a condensed reading and student comments on the course. Poet and critic are well met, as one of our best writers on poetry takes up one of the world's great poets. Where other books on the Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney have dwelt chiefly on the biographical, geographical, and political aspects of his writing, this book looks squarely and deeply at Heaney's poetry as art. A reading of the poet's development over the past thirty years, Seamus Heaney tells a story of poetic inventiveness, of ongoing experimentation in form and expression. It is an inspired and nuanced portrait of an Irish poet of public as well as private life, whose work has given voice to his troubled times. With characteristic discernment and eloquence, Helen Vendler traces Heaney's invention as it evolves from his beginnings in Death of a Naturalist (1966) through his most recent volume, The Spirit Level (1996). In sections entitled "Second Thoughts," she considers an often neglected but crucial part of Heaney's evolving talent: self-revision. Here we see how later poems return to the themes or genres of the earlier volumes, and reconceive them in light of the poet's later attitudes or techniques. Vendler surveys all of Heaney's efforts in the classical forms--genre scene, elegy, sonnet, parable, confessional poem, poem of perception--and brings to light his aesthetic and moral attitudes. Seamus Heaney's development as a poet is inextricably connected to the violent struggle that has racked Northern Ireland. Vendler shows how, from one volume to the next, Heaney has maintained vigilant attention toward finding a language for his time--"symbols adequate for our predicament," as he has said. The worldwide response to those discovered symbols suggests that their relevance extends far beyond this moment.

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Harvard University Press

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0674002059

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9780674002050

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By: Helen Vendler

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

By: Helen Vendler

Analyzes all of Shakespeare's sonnets in terms of their poetic structure, semantics, and use of sounds and images.

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0674637127

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The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

Room 214: A Year in Poems

Room 214: A Year in Poems

Coming of Age as a Poet

Coming of Age as a Poet

Our Secret Discipline

Our Secret Discipline

Keesha's House

Keesha's House

Seamus Heaney

Seamus Heaney

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets

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