Helen Vendler Quotes
1933–2024 United States
Helen Vendler (April 30, 1933 – April 23, 2024) was an American academic, writer and literary critic.
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Herman Melville, in his poetry, "declare[d a] belief... that all history is mere iteration ('Age after age shall be/As age after age has been')..."
I'm a critic rather than a scholar, a reader and writer more taken by texts than by contexts.
A Life of Learning (2001)
The presumption of commentary, from the first classical commentaries down to our day, is that literary works are complex enough in thought and style to solicit detailed intellectual reflection.
A Life of Learning (2001)
The young respond to poetry for the same reason I did at their age: poems tell complex truths of human response, and they structure words with particular force, wit, charm, intellectual responsibility, and plangency.
A Life of Learning (2001)