#  Helen Vendler 

Arthur Kingsley Porter University Professor, Emerita

 

 

 



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 location\_on Office: Barker 205 

 email <vendler@fas.harvard.edu> 

 laptop\_windows [Faculty Website](https://scholar.harvard.edu/vendler) 

 

By appointment

 

 



 

Education: A.B., Emmanuel College (1954)  
Ph.D., Harvard University (1960)

Interests: English and American Lyric Poetry.

Selected Works:  
The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar: Essays on Poets &amp; Poetry (2015); Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (2010); Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007); Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (2005); Poets Thinking: Pope, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats (2004); Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath (2003); Seamus Heaney (1998); The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997); Soul Says (1995); The Odes of John Keats (1983).