Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

(Part of the The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Series)

by Helen Vendler

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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 well as the paradoxical coexistence...

Format:Hardcover

Language:English

ISBN:0691145342

ISBN13:9780691145341

Release Date:March 2010

Publisher:Princeton University Press

Length:168 Pages

Weight:0.82 lbs.

Dimensions:0.8" x 5.8" x 8.5"

Related Subjects

Classics Criticism & Theory History & Criticism Literary Criticism Literary Criticism & Collections Modern (16th-21st Centuries)

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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

(Part of the The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Series)

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