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  1. Last looks, last books
    Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
    Published: c2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J.

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282531492; 1400834325; 9781282531499; 9781400834327
    RVK Categories: HU 1769
    Series: Bollingen series ; 35:56
    A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2007
    Subjects: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry; LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General; American poetry; Death; Literature; Literatur; American poetry; Death in literature; Lyrik
    Other subjects: Stevens, Wallace (1879-1955); Bishop, Elizabeth (1911-1979); Merrill, James Ingram (1926-1995); Plath, Sylvia (1932-1963); Lowell, Robert (1917-1977)
    Scope: 1 Online-Ressource (x, 152 p.)
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    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 of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. 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

    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

  2. Last looks, last books
    Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
    Published: 2010
    Publisher:  Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ

    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... more

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    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 of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day

     

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    Source: Union catalogues
    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 1282531492; 9780691145341; 9781400834327; 9781282531499
    Series: The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2003
    The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts Ser ; v.53
    Bollingen series ; XXXV, 56
    Subjects: Death in literature; American poetry; American poetry ; 20th century ; History and criticism; Death in literature; Electronic books
    Scope: Online-Ressource (x, 152 p)
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    Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1 Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books; 2 Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's The 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;