Langdon Hammer

Langdon Hammer, the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale, is the poetry editor of the Scholar and the author of James Merrill: Life and Art.

To Urbino We Go

Piero’s faces and the verse of Mary Jo Salter

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 1, 2025

The Ancients Among Us

The present and the past in the verse of John Tripoulas

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 2, 2025

Between Memory and Hope

The love poetry of Anthony Walton

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 3, 2025

The Art of Tuning In

Celebrating 20 years of poetry in the Scholar

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 2, 2024

The Art of Falling

The force of gravity in the lyrics of Andrew Motion

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 3, 2024

Florida Baroque

The tropical verse of Ange Mlinko

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 3, 2024

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

Shades of grief in the verse of Catherine Barnett

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 4, 2024

Song Gatherer

The ghostly Cantares Mexicanos, as rendered by Edgar Garcia

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 4, 2023

Louise Glück at Midnight

Remembering the poet who craved a listener

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday October 19, 2023

A Quicksilver Maker

The worldly verse of Lorna Goodison

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 5, 2023

To Urbino We Go

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 1, 2025

The Ancients Among Us

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 2, 2025

Between Memory and Hope

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 3, 2025

The Art of Tuning In

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 2, 2024

The Art of Falling

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 3, 2024

Florida Baroque

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 3, 2024

Ollie Ollie Oxen Free

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 4, 2024

Song Gatherer

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 4, 2023

Louise Glück at Midnight

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday October 19, 2023

A Quicksilver Maker

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 5, 2023

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