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.

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

God’s Toys: Alfred Corn

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 1, 2010

Karl Kirchwey's Forge of Love

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday December 1, 2009

Openings into an Open Mind

By Langdon Hammer | Tuesday September 1, 2009

Gary Snyder's Long View

By Langdon Hammer | Monday June 1, 2009

Between Two Worlds: Rosanna Warren

By Langdon Hammer | Monday December 1, 2008

Apollo and Dionysus

Henri Cole combines the formal and the sensual

By Langdon Hammer | Monday September 1, 2008

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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