Last looks, last books

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. 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 ... 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"--Publisher description.

Year

2010

Language

English

Series

The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts -- 2003

Publisher

Princeton University Press

Editions

4

Pages

162

ISBN

9780691145341

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