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, N.J. :
Princeton University Press,
©2010.
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Colección: | Bollingen series ;
35:56. A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2007. |
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: last looks, last books
- Looking at the worst: Wallace Stevens' The rock
- The contest of melodrama and restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel
- Images of subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by day
- Caught and freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III
- Self-portraits while dying: James Merrill and A scattering of salts.