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Helen Hennessy Vendler (born April 30, 1933〔date & year of birth, full name according to LCNAF CIP data〕 in Boston, MA) is an American literary critic and is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University.〔Rachel Donadio, ("The Closest Reader," ) ''New York Times'', December 10, 2006. ("She is also the leading poetry critic in America, the author of major books on Wallace Stevens, Keats and Shakespeare, and for a generation has been a powerful arbiter of the contemporary poetry scene.")〕〔Nicholas A. Basbanes, ''Every Book Its Reader: The Power of the Printed Word to Stir the World'', HarperCollins, New York, 2005, pp. 238--246.〕 ==Life and career== Vendler has written books on Emily Dickinson, W. B. Yeats, Wallace Stevens, John Keats, and Seamus Heaney. She has been a professor of English at Harvard University since 1984; between 1981 and 1984 she taught alternating semesters at Harvard and Boston University. 〔Joel A. Getz, ("Vendler Accepts English Dept. Appointment," ) ''Harvard Crimson'', December 10, 1984.〕 In 1990 she was appointed to an endowed chair as the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor. She is the first woman to hold this position. She has also taught at Cornell University, Swarthmore and Smith Colleges, and Boston University. She married (then later divorced) the philosopher Zeno Vendler with whom she had one son. In 1992 Vendler received a Litt. D. from Bates College.〔(List of Bates College Honorands )〕 Vendler did not major in English as an undergraduate. She earned an A.B. in chemistry at Emmanuel College. She was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship for mathematics, before earning her Ph.D. in English & American Literature from Harvard.〔(Helen Vendler's CV )〕 She has also been a judge for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book award, in poetry. In 2004, the National Endowment for the Humanities selected Vendler for the Jefferson Lecture, the U.S. federal government's highest honor for achievement in the humanities.〔(Jefferson Lecturers ) at NEH Website (retrieved January 22, 2009).〕〔Joshua D. Gottlieb, "Vendler Tapped for National Lecture," ''Harvard Crimson'', March 12, 2004.〕 Vendler's lecture, entitled "The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar,"〔Helen Vendler, ("The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar" ), text of Jefferson Lecture at NEH website.〕 used a number of poems by Wallace Stevens〔See for example her remarks about Stevens's Harmonium and its various poems, such as Le Monocle de Mon Oncle and Bantam in Pine Woods〕 to argue for the role of the arts (as opposed to history and philosophy) in the study of humanities.〔Sam Teller, ("Vendler Advocates Larger Role for Arts in Academia," ) ''Harvard Crimson'', March 15, 2005.〕 She is a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Helen Vendler」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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