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200 10$aLast looks, last books$b[electronic resource] $eStevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill /$fHelen Vendler
205   $aCourse Book
210   $aPrinceton, NJ $cPrinceton University Press$d2010
215   $a1 online resource (165 p.)
225 1 $aThe A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ;$v2003
225 1 $aBollingen series ;$vXXXV, 56
300   $aDescription based upon print version of record.
311   $a0-691-14534-2 
327   $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$t1. Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books --$t2. Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's The Rock --$t3. The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel --$t4. Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by Day --$t5. Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III --$t6. Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts --$tNotes --$tThe Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952-2007
330   $aIn Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike. With traditional religious consolations no longer available to them, these poets must invent new ways to express the crisis of death, as well as the paradoxical coexistence of a declining body and an undiminished consciousness. In The Rock, Wallace Stevens writes simultaneous narratives of winter and spring; in Ariel, Sylvia Plath sustains melodrama in cool formality; and in Day by Day, Robert Lowell subtracts from plenitude. In Geography III, Elizabeth Bishop is both caught and freed, while James Merrill, in A Scattering of Salts, creates a series of self-portraits as he dies, representing himself by such things as a Christmas tree, human tissue on a laboratory slide, and the evening/morning star. The solution for one poet will not serve for another; each must invent a bridge from an old style to a new one. Casting a last look at life as they contemplate death, these modern writers enrich the resources of lyric poetry.
410  0$aA.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ;$v2003.
410  0$aBollingen series ;$vXXXV, 56.
606   $aAmerican poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism
606   $aDeath in literature
610   $aAdjective.
610   $aAfter Apple-Picking.
610   $aAllusion.
610   $aAmputation.
610   $aArs Poetica (Horace).
610   $aAsymmetry.
610   $aBecause I could not stop for Death.
610   $aBevel.
610   $aBinocular vision.
610   $aBluebeard's Castle.
610   $aBurial.
610   $aCalcium carbonate.
610   $aCarbon monoxide.
610   $aCaspar David Friedrich.
610   $aCoffin.
610   $aCouplet.
610   $aDeath and Life.
610   $aDeath drive.
610   $aDeath.
610   $aDeathbed.
610   $aDesiccation.
610   $aDiction.
610   $aDisjecta membra.
610   $aDramatis Personae.
610   $aElizabeth Bishop.
610   $aEmblem.
610   $aEmily Dickinson.
610   $aEmptiness.
610   $aExecutive director.
610   $aEzra Pound.
610   $aFairy tale.
610   $aFine art.
610   $aGrandparent.
610   $aHexameter.
610   $aHuman extinction.
610   $aImpermanence.
610   $aIn Death.
610   $aIn the Flesh (TV series).
610   $aIncineration.
610   $aIrony.
610   $aJames Merrill.
610   $aJohn Donne.
610   $aJohn Keats.
610   $aLady Lazarus.
610   $aLament.
610   $aLast Poems.
610   $aLecture.
610   $aLife Studies.
610   $aLycidas.
610   $aMacabre.
610   $aMelodrama.
610   $aMetaphor.
610   $aMicrotome.
610   $aMisery (novel).
610   $aMourning.
610   $aNarcissism.
610   $aNarrative.
610   $aNational Gallery of Art.
610   $aNational Humanities Center.
610   $aOttava rima.
610   $aOtto Plath.
610   $aPentameter.
610   $aPhone sex.
610   $aPity.
610   $aPlath.
610   $aPlatitude.
610   $aPoetry.
610   $aPrinceton University Press.
610   $aPsychotherapy.
610   $aRhyme scheme.
610   $aRhyme.
610   $aRigor mortis.
610   $aRobert Lowell.
610   $aSadness.
610   $aSestet.
610   $aShe Died.
610   $aSkirt.
610   $aSlowness (novel).
610   $aSoliloquy.
610   $aSonnet.
610   $aStanza.
610   $aSubtraction.
610   $aSuffering.
610   $aSuicide attempt.
610   $aSylvia Plath.
610   $aTed Hughes.
610   $aTercet.
610   $aTerza rima.
610   $aThe Other Hand.
610   $aThe Snapper (novel).
610   $aTrepanning.
610   $aTyvek.
610   $aVillanelle.
610   $aVocation (poem).
610   $aW. B. Yeats.
610   $aW. H. Auden.
610   $aWallace Stevens.
610   $aWasting.
610   $aWilliam Shakespeare.
610   $aWriting.
615  0$aAmerican poetry$xHistory and criticism.
615  0$aDeath in literature.
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