Helen Vendler
Helen Vendler
Helen Hennessy Vendleris an American literary critic and is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth30 April 1933
CountryUnited States of America
voice firsts chance
When I first heard Wallace Stevens voice, it was by chance: a friend wanted to listen to the recording he had made for the Harvard Vocarium Series.
literature glory modern
Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.
thinking artist people
One could say that artists are people who think naturally in highly patterned ways.
art play utterance
The art of utterance persuades initially by its music and its rhythm, before semiotic or personal characteristics come into play.
make-sense asks
Each poem leads you to the questions it makes sense to ask it.
artist busy disappear
The non-artists among us are always terribly busy, but finally disappear without a trace.
voice
You don’t read or overhear the voice in the poem, you are the voice in the poem.
art criticism my-favorite
I like art history and art criticism. Leo Steinberg has always been my favorite. Hes very original, very accurate and acute.
believe overhear performance poems score speaking
I believe that poems are a score for performance by the reader, and that you become the speaking voice. You don't read or overhear the voice in the poem - you are the voice in the poem.
past poet exception
All good poets of the past, almost without exception, were at least bilingual if not trilingual.