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



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Autore: Vendler Helen <1933-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Last looks, last books [[electronic resource] ] : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / / Helen Vendler Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Princeton, NJ, : Princeton University Press, 2010
Edizione: Course Book
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (165 p.)
Disciplina: 811.509
811/.5093548
Soggetto topico: American poetry - 20th century - History and criticism
Death in literature
Soggetto non controllato: Adjective
After Apple-Picking
Allusion
Amputation
Ars Poetica (Horace)
Asymmetry
Because I could not stop for Death
Bevel
Binocular vision
Bluebeard's Castle
Burial
Calcium carbonate
Carbon monoxide
Caspar David Friedrich
Coffin
Couplet
Death and Life
Death drive
Death
Deathbed
Desiccation
Diction
Disjecta membra
Dramatis Personae
Elizabeth Bishop
Emblem
Emily Dickinson
Emptiness
Executive director
Ezra Pound
Fairy tale
Fine art
Grandparent
Hexameter
Human extinction
Impermanence
In Death
In the Flesh (TV series)
Incineration
Irony
James Merrill
John Donne
John Keats
Lady Lazarus
Lament
Last Poems
Lecture
Life Studies
Lycidas
Macabre
Melodrama
Metaphor
Microtome
Misery (novel)
Mourning
Narcissism
Narrative
National Gallery of Art
National Humanities Center
Ottava rima
Otto Plath
Pentameter
Phone sex
Pity
Plath
Platitude
Poetry
Princeton University Press
Psychotherapy
Rhyme scheme
Rhyme
Rigor mortis
Robert Lowell
Sadness
Sestet
She Died
Skirt
Slowness (novel)
Soliloquy
Sonnet
Stanza
Subtraction
Suffering
Suicide attempt
Sylvia Plath
Ted Hughes
Tercet
Terza rima
The Other Hand
The Snapper (novel)
Trepanning
Tyvek
Villanelle
Vocation (poem)
W. B. Yeats
W. H. Auden
Wallace Stevens
Wasting
William Shakespeare
Writing
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- 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 -- The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952-2007
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Last looks, last books  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-282-53149-2
9786612531491
1-4008-3432-5
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910792465803321
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Serie: A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; ; 2003. Bollingen series ; ; XXXV, 56.