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.

Voyagers

The sensation of being situated across time and space in the verse of John Kinsella

By Langdon Hammer | Monday March 2, 2026

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

Apollo and Dionysus

By Langdon Hammer | Monday September 1, 2008

Louise Glück’s Italy of the Mind

By Langdon Hammer | Saturday September 1, 2007

The Mind at Work and Play

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday March 1, 2007

Conflict and Culture

By Langdon Hammer | Friday December 1, 2006

The Leaves Rush, Greening, Back

By Langdon Hammer | Friday September 1, 2006

The Crux of the Matter

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday June 1, 2006

The Bomb in the Sanctuary

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday December 1, 2005

The Latches of Paradise

By Langdon Hammer | Thursday September 1, 2005

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