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Last Looks, Last Books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill /
In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must inv...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Princeton, NJ :
Princeton University Press,
[2010]
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| Edición: | Course Book |
| Colección: | The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts ;
583 |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books
- 2. Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's Th e Rock
- 3. The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel
- 4. Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by Day
- 5. Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III
- 6. Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts
- Notes
- The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952-2007