Vendler Last Looks, Last Books

Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-3432-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
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E-Book, Englisch, Band 35, 168 Seiten

Reihe: The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Vendler, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments ix

Chapter 1: Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books 1

Chapter 2: Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's Th e Rock 25

Chapter 3: Th e Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath's Ariel 47

Chapter 4: Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell's Day by Day 70

Chapter 5: Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III 94

Chapter 6: Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts 117

Notes 143

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Vendler (1933–2024) was 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 was a frequent reviewer for the New Republic, the New York Review of Books, and other publications.