《大海，飞鸟和学者》内容简介

　　诗人说，没有飞鸟及其后代，大海将成为“死亡的地貌”。

　　本书集萃了海伦·文德勒二十年来的论文、书评和不定期散文（包括2004年的杰斐逊讲座）。文德勒研究了十九世纪和二十世纪英国、爱尔兰和美国诗人及其作品，其中既有她长期关注的史蒂文斯、希尼、阿什贝利和格雷厄姆等人，又兼顾休斯、金斯堡、洛威尔、毕肖普、克兰皮特、梅里尔等人。此外，文德勒还着力于回溯诗歌传统，追踪济慈、叶芝、惠特曼、艾略特和其他诗人在当今诗人作品中的影响。文德勒试图展现史蒂文斯所说的诗论生态：“诗歌是学者的艺术。”

　　作者简介

　　海伦·文德勒

　　美国诗歌评论家，哈佛大学阿·金斯利·波特校级教授。她关于诗人和诗歌的论著不胜枚举，所涉诗人广及莎士比亚、狄金森到希尼、毕肖普等，多获赞誉。代表作有《叶芝的幻象及其后期戏剧》（1963）、《乔治·赫伯特的诗歌》（1975）、《约翰·济慈的颂歌》（1983）、《莎士比亚十四行诗的艺术》（1997）、《诗人的成年》（2003）、《看不见的倾听者》（2005）、《花朵与漩涡》（2010）等。

The Sea, the Birds and the Scholars

The poet said that without birds and their offspring, the sea would be "the landscape of death."

This book is a collection of two decades of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional essays (including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture). Wendler has studied 19th - and 20th-century British, Irish, and American poets and their works, including Stevens, Heaney, Ashbery, and Graham, whom she has long focused on, as well as Hughes, Ginsberg, Lowell, Bishop, Krampitt, and Merrill. In addition, Wendler seeks to trace the poetic tradition, tracing the influence of Keats, Yeats, Whitman, Eliot, and others in the work of today's poets. Wendler tries to show what Stevens called the poetical ecology: "Poetry is a scholar's art."

About the author

Helen Vendler

American poetry critic and professor at Harvard University. Her works on poets and poetry are numerous, ranging from Shakespeare and Dickinson to Heaney and Bishop. Examples include The Visions of Yeats and Their Later Plays (1963), The Poems of George Herbert (1975), An Ode to John Keats (1983), The Art of Shakespeare's Sonnets (1997), The Coming of Age of the Poet (2003), The Invisible Listener (2005), Flowers and Vortices (201) 0) etc.