居于诗中：最后的散文 Inhabit the Poem: Last Essays

基本信息

Format:Hardback 244 pages

Publisher:The Library of America

Imprint:The Library of America

ISBN:9781598538274

Published:2 Sep 2025

Dimensions:203 x 127 (mm)

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书籍简介

这位伟大的诗歌评论家在十三篇文章中，对她影响深远的诗歌和诗人，从沃尔特·惠特曼、艾米莉·狄金森到华莱士·史蒂文斯和西尔维娅·普拉斯，进行了总结。

海伦·文德勒是我们伟大的诗歌读者，她是一位学者，为广大读者阐明了诗歌的内在机制和情感根源。

文德勒始终关注诗歌的风格和想象力，并在十三篇文章中探讨了众多美国、英国和爱尔兰诗人的作品——既有经典之作，也有令人意想不到的佳作：

• 沃尔特·惠特曼，初创创伤后应激障碍诗歌的作者

• 西尔维娅·普拉斯与失落的母性诗歌

• 威廉·考珀、詹姆斯·梅里尔和A. R. 阿蒙斯论诗歌的魅力

• 艾米莉·勃朗特和艾米莉·狄金森，由诗歌的神秘感联系在一起

• 欧申·武翁与当今诗歌的塑造性想象力

• 华莱士·史蒂文斯与美的谜团。

在这些以及其他散文中，文德勒再次证明了爱尔兰诗人谢默斯·希尼为何称她为“文学作品中优秀的诗歌细读者”。本书收录的十三篇感人至深的散文均发表于文德勒生命的后三年，发表在《自由》杂志上，并计划将其作为她的z后一本书。作者的序言在她九十岁去世前三天才完成。

In 13 essays, the great poetry critic offers her final word on the poems and poets who have meant the most to her, from Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson to Wallace Stevens and Sylvia Plath

Helen Vendler was our greatest reader of poetry, a scholar who illuminiated its inner mechanisms and emotional roots for a wide audience.

Always attentive to the stylistic and imaginative features of a poem, Vendler addresses the work of a wide range of American, English, and Irish poets—both the canonical and the unexpected—in 13 essays:

• Walt Whitman, author of the first PTSD poem

• Sylvia Plath, and the lost poetry of motherhood

• William Cowper, James Merrill, and A. R. Ammons on poetric charm

• Emily Brontë and Emily Dickinson, linked by a poetic mystery

• Ocean Vuong and the shaping imagination of poetry today

• Wallace Stevens and the enigma of beauty.

In these and other essays Vendler demonstrates once again why the Irish poet Seamus Heaney called her “the best close reader of poems to be found on the literary pages.” The thirteen poignant essays gathered here were all published in the last three years of Vendler's life, in Liberties magazine, and intended as her final book. The author’s preface was completed only three days before her death, at age ninety.

作者简介

海伦·文德勒曾任哈佛大学A.金斯利·波特大学教授。她著有多部诗歌评论著作，包括《莎士比亚十四行诗艺术》（1997年）、《狄金森：精选诗歌与评论》（2010年）和《海洋、鸟儿与学者》（2015年）。她的著作《自然的一部分：现代美国诗人》（1980年）荣获美国国家图书评论家协会批评奖。2023年，她荣获美国艺术与文学学院颁发的纯文学与批评金奖。文德勒于2024年4月23日，即莎士比亚逝世周年纪念日，因癌症去世，享年90岁。

Helen Vendler was the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard. Her many books of poetry criticism include The Art of Shakespeare’s Sonnets (1997), Dickinson: Selected Poems and Commentaries (2010), and The Ocean, The Bird and The Scholar (2015). Her book Part of Nature: Modern American Poets (1980) won the National Book Critics’ Circle Award for Criticism. In 2023, she was awarded a Gold Medal for Belles Lettres and Criticism from The American Academy of Arts and Letters. Vendler died of cancer at age 90, on the anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, April 23, 2024.