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Helen Vendler

Born: April 30, 1933
Died: April 23, 2024 (aged 90)
Bio: Helen Hennessy Vendler was an American academic, writer and literary critic. She was a professor of English language and history at Boston University, Cornell, Harvard, and other universities.
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)







