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.

The Voice Is Ready to Sing

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 4, 2012

The Parson’s Tale

By Langdon Hammer | Friday June 1, 2012

Taming Grief

On poems by Kevin Young

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday March 1, 2012

Hearing Mandelstam

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday November 30, 2011

John Koethe’s Red Shoes

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday August 25, 2011

Homage to a Bad Boy: John Ashbery

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday March 2, 2011

Expatriate’s Lament

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday December 1, 2010

History and Hope: Elizabeth Alexander

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday September 1, 2010

Step Right Up: Paul Muldoon

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday June 1, 2010

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

In the Aftermath of Civil War

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday June 1, 2023

Drunk on Dub

By Langdon Hammer | Wednesday March 1, 2023

Bearing Witness Beyond Despair

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday December 1, 2022

Ways of Being

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday September 1, 2022

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