Helen Vendler

Helen Hennessy Vendler (1933–2024) was an American literary critic, poet, journalist, and writer. Born in Boston and residing in Massachusetts, she was employed by and educated at Harvard University. Her professional focus was literary criticism, and she wrote in English. She was married to Zeno Vendler and had no children.

Vendler received the Jefferson Lecture and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She was a member of the Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and the American Philosophical Society. Her notable works include *Yeats at sonnets*, *Dickinson*, *Last looks, last books*, *Complete Poems of A. R. Ammons*, *Poems, Poets, Poetry 3e & LaunchPad Solo for Literature*, and she participated in *A Letter on Justice and Open Debate*. She died in Laguna Niguel.