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.

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

Confluences of Sound and Sense

Kay Ryan’s idiosyncratic approach to the commonplace

By Langdon Hammer | Sunday June 1, 2008

Louise Glück’s Italy of the Mind

On a classical stage peopled by workers, wives, and lovers

By Langdon Hammer | Saturday September 1, 2007

The Mind at Work and Play

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday March 1, 2007

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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