Helen Vendler

professor, English, Harvard University

Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor of English at Harvard University. Her many books include *Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery *(Princeton), as well as studies of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Stevens, and Heaney. She is a frequent reviewer for the *New Republic*, the *New York Review of Books*, and other publications.