Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2010.
Colección:Bollingen series ; 35:56.
A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2007.
Temas:
1900-1999
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Poésie américaine > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
Mort dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American poetry
Death in literature
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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.

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