ÝA¨ scrupulous and sensitive exploration of Keats' odes...Treating
the odes as a unit is not new, but Vendler uses them with
new-minted relevance to reveal the development of Keats' creative
mind. She is our finest close reader of poetry, and page after page
brims with the excitement of the poet's intellectual and artistic
discoveries...When you finish this book, you don't reach an end;
you understand why Keats made or did not make the choices he did;
and you are compelled to go back and reconsider these complex
relationships, both in the criticism and the odes...The prose
brilliantly illumines the mind and art of Keats. -- Robert Taylor
"Boston Globe"
ÝVendler¨ is often described as the best living American "close
reader" of poetry, and rumors of a forthcoming book on Keats have
aroused expectations of pleasure such as are not always to be
detected when a professor announces a book on a poet. She has met
this new challenge with her usual admirable vigor and
confidence...She is a virtuoso. -- Frank Kermode "New York Times
Book Review"
Helen Vendler's readings of Keats's major poems are simply
superb.
Vendler's study of the Odes is as sympathetic, as fundamentally
Keatsian, as it is persuasive. It contains the fullest and most
searching expansion of these six poems...that has yet appeared. --
John Bayley "Times Literary Supplement"
[A] scrupulous and sensitive exploration of Keats' odes...Treating
the odes as a unit is not new, but Vendler uses them with
new-minted relevance to reveal the development of Keats' creative
mind. She is our finest close reader of poetry, and page after page
brims with the excitement of the poet's intellectual and artistic
discoveries...When you finish this book, you don't reach an end;
you understand why Keats made or did not make the choices he did;
and you are compelled to go back and reconsider these complex
relationships, both in the criticism and the odes...The prose
brilliantly illumines the mind and art of Keats.
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