Last looks, last books :Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
- 作者: Vendler, Helen,
- 出版: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press 2010.
- 稽核項: x, 152 p. ;23 cm.
- 叢書名: The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ;2007 , Bollingen series ;XXXV, 56
- 標題: USA , Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 Criticism and interpretation. , Plath, Sylvia. , Merrill, James Ingram , Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955. , Criticism and interpretation. , Plath, Sylvia , Bishop, Elizabeth (Schriftstellerin) , Stevens, Wallace, 1879-1955 Criticism and interpretation. , Death in literature. , History and criticism. , Geschichte 1950-2000 , Merrill, James, , American poetry 20th century -- History and criticism. , Bishop, Elizabeth, , American poetry , Stevens, Wallace, , Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 Criticism and interpretation. , Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. , Merrill, James, 1926-1995 Criticism and interpretation. , Lowell, Robert, , Plath, Sylvia Criticism and interpretation. , Merrill, James, 1926-1995. , Lowell, Robert (Schriftsteller, 1917-1977) , Lyrik , Stevens, Wallace , Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977.
- ISBN: 0691145342 , 9780691145341
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- 附註: 100年度教育部購置教學研究相關圖書儀器及設備計畫. 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. Includes bibliographical references.
- 摘要: 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"--From publisher description.
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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.
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