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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, Helen Vendler
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- Summary
- 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)
- Contents
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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
- Isbn
- 9780691145341
- Label
- Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
- Title
- Last looks, last books
- Title remainder
- Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
- Statement of responsibility
- Helen Vendler
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- 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
- Cataloging source
- N$T
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1933-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Vendler, Helen
- Index
- no index present
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
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- dictionaries
- bibliography
- Series statement
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- Bollingen series
- The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts
- Series volume
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- 35:56.
- 2007
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- American poetry
- Death in literature
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- LITERARY CRITICISM
- American poetry
- Death in literature
- Label
- Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, Helen Vendler
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
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- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
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- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn609873756
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691145341
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctts1sr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609873756
- Label
- Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill, Helen Vendler
- Antecedent source
- unknown
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references
- Carrier category
- online resource
- Carrier category code
-
- cr
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Color
- multicolored
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 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
- Control code
- ocn609873756
- Dimensions
- unknown
- Extent
- 1 online resource (x, 152 pages)
- File format
- unknown
- Form of item
- online
- Isbn
- 9780691145341
- Level of compression
- unknown
- Media category
- computer
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
-
- c
- Note
- JSTOR
- http://library.link/vocab/ext/overdrive/overdriveId
- 22573/ctts1sr
- Quality assurance targets
- not applicable
- Reformatting quality
- unknown
- Sound
- unknown sound
- Specific material designation
- remote
- System control number
- (OCoLC)609873756
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