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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill  Cover Image Book Book

Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler.

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  • ISBN: 9780691145341 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • ISBN: 0691145342 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • Physical Description: x, 152 p. ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, 2010.

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Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note:
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.
Subject: American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Death in literature.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 > Criticism and interpretation.
Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. Rock.
Plath, Sylvia > Criticism and interpretation.
Plath, Sylvia. Ariel.
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 > Criticism and interpretation.
Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977. Day by day.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 > Criticism and interpretation.
Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. Geography III.
Merrill, James, 1926-1995 > Criticism and interpretation.
Merrill, James, 1926-1995. Scattering of salts.

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