The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Last Looks, Last Books : : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / / Helen Vendler.
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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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2010] ©2010 |
| Year of Publication: | 2010 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Bollingen Series (General) ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (168 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books
- 2. Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens’s Th e Rock
- 3. The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel
- 4. Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell’s Day by Day
- 5. Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III
- 6. Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts
- Notes
- The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952–2007