The Boston Globe: Helen Vendler, a towering presence in poetry criticism, has died
Struggling as a single mother in 1967 to raise a son on scant funds while teaching 10 college courses a year, Helen Vendler realized that “the only way I could make my life easier was to give up ...
The Washington Post: Helen Vendler, poetry critic both revered and feared, dies at 90
Helen Vendler, a literary scholar and reviewer of poetry who was revered and feared in equal measures, whose scalpel-sharp critiques could elevate or wound careers and who introduced hundreds of poets ...
The Boston Globe: Helen Vendler: Poetry critic and fan of art history
When Helen Vendler was a graduate student in English in the 1950s at Harvard University she was barred from the school’s Lamont Library, where the poetry room was located, because she was a woman.
The New York Times: Helen Vendler, ‘Colossus’ of Poetry Criticism, Dies at 90
In the poetry marketplace, her praise had reputation-making power, while her disapproval could be withering. By William Grimes Helen Vendler, one of the leading poetry critics in the United States, ...
The close passing of the poetry critics Marjorie Perloff and Helen Vendler is a moment to recognize the end of an era. Illustration by The Atlantic. Sources: Alan Thomas; Lilian Kemp / Radcliffe ...
The idea proposed by Helen Vendler at last night's 33rd annual Jefferson Lecture -- the National Endowment for the Humanities' blowout, honorary Big Thinker speech -- is deceptively radical. She asked ...