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Academic Position:
English Professor at Yale University

Langdon Hammer is the Niel Gray Jr. Professor of English at Yale University. He studies the cultural history of poetry, and has a keen interest in poet's lives. He is also the poetry editor of 'American Scholar', and has been the English Department chair at Yale University three times since joining the department in 1987. Currently, Langdon is working on a critical biography of Elizabeth Bishop, and is editing several volumes of American Poetry.

Recent Publications

  • James Merrill: Life and Art (Knopf, 2019)
# Title Description Contributor
1 Modern Poetry - T.S. Eliot cont. (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer
2 Modern Poetry - T.S. Eliot (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer
3 Modern Poetry - Marianne Moore cont. (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer
4 Modern Poetry - Marianne Moore (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer
5 Modern Poetry - Imagism (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer
6 World War I Poetry in England (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer
7 Ezra Pound (lecture)

Lecture by Professor Langdon Hammer given as part of Open Yale courses, 'engl 310: Modern Poetry...

Langdon Hammer