The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar

The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 456
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ISBN-10 : 9780674425743
ISBN-13 : 067442574X
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Book Synopsis The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar by : Helen Vendler

Download or read book The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar written by Helen Vendler and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2015-04-20 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of our foremost commentators examines the work of a broad range of English, Irish, and American poets. Helen Vendler’s essays, book reviews, and occasional prose from the past two decades, taken together, are an eloquent plea for the centrality—in humanistic study and modern culture—of poetry’s subversive, sustaining, and demanding legacy.


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