The Ocean, the Bird, and the ScholarA Times Higher Education Book of the Week One of our foremost commentators on poetry examines the work of a broad range of nineteenth and twentieth century English, Irish, and American poets. The Ocean, the Bird, and the Scholar gathers two decades' worth of Helen Vendler's essays, book reviews, and occasional prose including the 2004 Jefferson Lecture in a single volume. "It's one of [Vendler's] finest books, an impressive summation of a long,