Quote of the day
Joy is like restless day; but peace divine
Like quiet night;
Lead me, O Lord, — till perfect Day shall shine
Through Peace to Light.
Helen Vendler
Born: April 30, 1933 (age 90)
Bio: Helen Hennessy Vendler is an American literary critic and is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.
Known for:
- The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar (2015)
- Our Secret Discipline: Yeats and Lyric Form (2007)
- Poets thinking (2004)
- Wallace Stevens: Words Chosen Out of Desire (1984)