Last looks, last books [electronic resource] : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler.
Vendler, Helen, 1933-
2010
PS310.D42 V46 2010eb
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Title Last looks, last books [electronic resource] : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler.
Author Vendler, Helen, 1933-
ISBN 9781400834327 (electronic bk.)
9780691145341
Imprint Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Language English
Description 1 online resource (x, 152 p.)
Call Number PS310.D42 V46 2010eb
Summary 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. 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 of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness....The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry"--From publisher description.
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Series A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2003.
Bollingen series ; XXXV, 56.
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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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