Helen Vendler

Standard Name: Vendler, Helen

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Literary responses Adrienne Rich
The volume was criticised more generally for its consistently negative images of men and masculinity. Helen Vendler found in the poems a deliberate refusal of the modulations of intelligence in favor of . ....
Dedications Seamus Heaney
SH published his first poetry volume since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature the previous year: The Spirit Level, dedicated to Helen Vendler .
Fox, Margaret, and James McKinley. “Keeper of the Irish Essence”. The Globe and Mail, p. S12.
Heaney, Seamus. The Spirit Level. Faber.
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Vendler, Helen. “Why aren’t they screaming?”. London Review of Books, Vol.
36
, No. 21, pp. 18-22.