Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Vendler, Helen
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Vendler, Helen

Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

Modern American poets writing in the face of death In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic...
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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Vendler, Helen

Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

$103.80
Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill by Vendler, Helen

Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

$103.80
Author: Helen Vendler
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
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Modern American poets writing in the face of death

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.

Author: Helen Vendler
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 03/21/2010
Pages: 168
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.80w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780691145341


Review Citation(s):
New York Times Book Review 12/05/2010 pg. 50
Choice 02/01/2011

About the Author
Helen Vendler is the A. Kingsley Porter University Professor at Harvard University. Her many books include Invisible Listeners: Lyric Intimacy in Herbert, Whitman, and Ashbery (Princeton), as well as studies of Shakespeare, Keats, Yeats, Stevens, and Heaney. She is a frequent reviewer for the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other publications.
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