 | Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill Helen Vendler (1933-2024) was the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. Her many books include Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (Princeton), as well as studies of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Stevens, and Heaney. She was a frequent reviewer for the New Republic , the New York Review of Books , and other publications. |
