Last looks, last books [electronic resource] : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler.

9781400834327 (electronic bk.)
9780691145341

Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.

English

1 online resource (x, 152 p.)

PS310.D42 V46 2010eb

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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A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2003.
Bollingen series ; XXXV, 56.

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