Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill - Hardcover
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Availability:In StockContributor:Helen VendlerSeries:A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine ArtsPublish date:2010-03-21Pages:168
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691145341ISBN-10:691145342UPC:9780691145341Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, American, ModernBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.50 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCDVHAHFTC
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Modern American poets writing in the face of death
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 invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as...Series: A.W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts
Language:EnglishPublisher:Princeton University PressISBN-13:9780691145341ISBN-10:691145342UPC:9780691145341Book Category:Literary CriticismBook Subcategory:Poetry, American, ModernBook Topic:21st CenturySize:8.50 x 5.80 x 0.80 inchesWeight:0.7011Product ID:SCDVHAHFTC
Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. Her many books include Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (Princeton), as well as studies of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Stevens, and Heaney. She is a frequent reviewer for the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other publications.
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