Seamus Heaney, Denis Donoghue, William Pritchard, Marilyn Butler, Harold Bloom, and many others have praised Helen Vendler as one of the most attentive readers of poetry. Here, Vendler turns her illuminating skills as a critic to 150 selected poems of Emily Dickinson. As she did in The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets, she serves as an incomparable guide, considering both stylistic and imaginative features of the poems.
In selecting these poems for commentary Vendler chooses to exhibit many aspects of Dickinson’s work as a poet, “from her first-person poems to the poems of grand abstraction, from her ecstatic verses to her unparalleled depictions of emotional numbness, from her comic anecdotes to her painful poems of aftermath.” Included here are many expected favorites as well as more complex and less often anthologized poems. Taken together, Vendler’s selection reveals Emily Dickinson’s development as a poet, her astonishing range, and her revelation of what Wordsworth called “the history and science of feeling.”
In accompanying commentaries Vendler offers a deeper acquaintance with Dickinson the writer, “the inventive conceiver and linguistic shaper of her perennial themes.” All of Dickinson’s preoccupations—death, religion, love, the natural world, the nature of thought—are explored here in detail, but Vendler always takes care to emphasize the poet’s startling imagination and the ingenuity of her linguistic invention. Whether exploring less familiar poems or favorites we thought we knew, Vendler reveals Dickinson as “a master” of a revolutionary verse-language of immediacy and power. Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries will be an indispensable reference work for students of Dickinson and readers of lyric poetry.
3 有用 龟掌拨清波 2020-10-10 05:14:09
My Dickinson prof is a man of superb emotional intelligence, but it is Vendler (here's my fervent wish that she will write her next book on the relation of the Psalms to Herbert's poetry and prose; He... My Dickinson prof is a man of superb emotional intelligence, but it is Vendler (here's my fervent wish that she will write her next book on the relation of the Psalms to Herbert's poetry and prose; Herb is perfectly capable of such a project, too) who really made Dickinson my psychiatrist. There's magic in her words, which unwind my frayed nerves. (展开)
1 有用 Soothing 2022-01-11 22:57:08
诗歌文本细读很难见到像Vendler这样让我感动的学者,上学的时候有一次站着读到熄灯、流泪。但好像没有以前那么被她吸引了。
0 有用 xvr 2023-04-26 12:41:21 美国
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1 有用 布拉伯巴卜 2021-10-09 10:01:55
这样跟着Vendler读诗实在是一种享受!仿佛可以听见,那个在夜深人静之时弓坐在书桌微弱的灯光下划下一道又一道dash的Dickinson发出的murmuring sound。Vendler读过她的读物,了解她的性情与好恶,知晓她的每一处修涂,她的情绪在诗行之间的流动与起伏,以及她为了谁而作出何种妥协 - 就这样神奇地跨越时空阻碍去到她的身旁,聆听她的细语。最重要的是,Vendler拥有读诗的想象... 这样跟着Vendler读诗实在是一种享受!仿佛可以听见,那个在夜深人静之时弓坐在书桌微弱的灯光下划下一道又一道dash的Dickinson发出的murmuring sound。Vendler读过她的读物,了解她的性情与好恶,知晓她的每一处修涂,她的情绪在诗行之间的流动与起伏,以及她为了谁而作出何种妥协 - 就这样神奇地跨越时空阻碍去到她的身旁,聆听她的细语。最重要的是,Vendler拥有读诗的想象力,和与诗人做朋友的耐心与才情。 (展开)
0 有用 梨戈 2023-08-15 01:11:21 加拿大
我的年度之书
0 有用 梨戈 2023-08-15 01:11:21 加拿大
我的年度之书
0 有用 xvr 2023-04-26 12:41:21 美国
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1 有用 Soothing 2022-01-11 22:57:08
诗歌文本细读很难见到像Vendler这样让我感动的学者,上学的时候有一次站着读到熄灯、流泪。但好像没有以前那么被她吸引了。
1 有用 布拉伯巴卜 2021-10-09 10:01:55
这样跟着Vendler读诗实在是一种享受!仿佛可以听见,那个在夜深人静之时弓坐在书桌微弱的灯光下划下一道又一道dash的Dickinson发出的murmuring sound。Vendler读过她的读物,了解她的性情与好恶,知晓她的每一处修涂,她的情绪在诗行之间的流动与起伏,以及她为了谁而作出何种妥协 - 就这样神奇地跨越时空阻碍去到她的身旁,聆听她的细语。最重要的是,Vendler拥有读诗的想象... 这样跟着Vendler读诗实在是一种享受!仿佛可以听见,那个在夜深人静之时弓坐在书桌微弱的灯光下划下一道又一道dash的Dickinson发出的murmuring sound。Vendler读过她的读物,了解她的性情与好恶,知晓她的每一处修涂,她的情绪在诗行之间的流动与起伏,以及她为了谁而作出何种妥协 - 就这样神奇地跨越时空阻碍去到她的身旁,聆听她的细语。最重要的是,Vendler拥有读诗的想象力,和与诗人做朋友的耐心与才情。 (展开)
3 有用 龟掌拨清波 2020-10-10 05:14:09
My Dickinson prof is a man of superb emotional intelligence, but it is Vendler (here's my fervent wish that she will write her next book on the relation of the Psalms to Herbert's poetry and prose; He... My Dickinson prof is a man of superb emotional intelligence, but it is Vendler (here's my fervent wish that she will write her next book on the relation of the Psalms to Herbert's poetry and prose; Herb is perfectly capable of such a project, too) who really made Dickinson my psychiatrist. There's magic in her words, which unwind my frayed nerves. (展开)