Vendlerising
John Kerrigan, 2 April 1987
The Faber Book of Contemporary American Poetry
edited by Helen Vendler.
Faber, 440 pp., £9.95, November 1986,0 571 13945 0 Show More
edited by Helen Vendler.
Faber, 440 pp., £9.95, November 1986,
The Poetry Book Society Anthology 1986/87
edited by Jonathan Barker.
Hutchinson, 94 pp., £4.95, November 1986,0 09 165961 2 Show More
edited by Jonathan Barker.
Hutchinson, 94 pp., £4.95, November 1986,
Two Horse Wagon Going By
by Christopher Middleton.
Carcanet, 143 pp., £5.95, October 1986,0 85635 661 1 Show More
by Christopher Middleton.
Carcanet, 143 pp., £5.95, October 1986,
“... that poem is in some ways the centrepiece of Vendler’s book. The trouble is there’s more to John Ashbery than ‘The Painter’, ‘Drunken Americans’ and his other disquisitions on the Reflective Sublime. To compare Vendler’s choice with Ashbery’s, in the invaluable Selected Poems, is to find a troubling divergence. She gives us nothing, for ... ”