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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Death in literature.
American poetry.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Poetry.
Mort dans la litterature.
Poesie americaine > 20e siecle > Histoire et critique.
American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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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