TY  - BOOK
AU  - Vendler,Helen
TI  - The A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts. Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill 
T2  - Bollingen Series (General)
SN  - 9780691145341
AV  - PS310.D42 V46 2010eb
U1  - 811/.5093548 22
PY  - 2010///]
CY  - Princeton, NJ : 
PB  - Princeton University Press, 
KW  - American poetry
KW  - 20th century
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Death in literature
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM
KW  - Poetry
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Adjective
KW  - After Apple-Picking
KW  - Allusion
KW  - Amputation
KW  - Ars Poetica (Horace)
KW  - Asymmetry
KW  - Because I could not stop for Death
KW  - Bevel
KW  - Binocular vision
KW  - Bluebeard's Castle
KW  - Burial
KW  - Calcium carbonate
KW  - Carbon monoxide
KW  - Caspar David Friedrich
KW  - Coffin
KW  - Couplet
KW  - Death and Life
KW  - Death drive
KW  - Death
KW  - Deathbed
KW  - Desiccation
KW  - Diction
KW  - Disjecta membra
KW  - Dramatis Personae
KW  - Elizabeth Bishop
KW  - Emblem
KW  - Emily Dickinson
KW  - Emptiness
KW  - Executive director
KW  - Ezra Pound
KW  - Fairy tale
KW  - Fine art
KW  - Grandparent
KW  - Hexameter
KW  - Human extinction
KW  - Impermanence
KW  - In Death
KW  - In the Flesh (TV series)
KW  - Incineration
KW  - Irony
KW  - James Merrill
KW  - John Donne
KW  - John Keats
KW  - Lady Lazarus
KW  - Lament
KW  - Last Poems
KW  - Lecture
KW  - Life Studies
KW  - Lycidas
KW  - Macabre
KW  - Melodrama
KW  - Metaphor
KW  - Microtome
KW  - Misery (novel)
KW  - Mourning
KW  - Narcissism
KW  - Narrative
KW  - National Gallery of Art
KW  - National Humanities Center
KW  - Ottava rima
KW  - Otto Plath
KW  - Pentameter
KW  - Phone sex
KW  - Pity
KW  - Plath
KW  - Platitude
KW  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Psychotherapy
KW  - Rhyme scheme
KW  - Rhyme
KW  - Rigor mortis
KW  - Robert Lowell
KW  - Sadness
KW  - Sestet
KW  - She Died
KW  - Skirt
KW  - Slowness (novel)
KW  - Soliloquy
KW  - Sonnet
KW  - Stanza
KW  - Subtraction
KW  - Suffering
KW  - Suicide attempt
KW  - Sylvia Plath
KW  - Ted Hughes
KW  - Tercet
KW  - Terza rima
KW  - The Other Hand
KW  - The Snapper (novel)
KW  - Trepanning
KW  - Tyvek
KW  - Villanelle
KW  - Vocation (poem)
KW  - W. B. Yeats
KW  - W. H. Auden
KW  - Wallace Stevens
KW  - Wasting
KW  - William Shakespeare
KW  - Writing
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Acknowledgments --; 1. Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books --; 2. Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens’s Th e Rock --; 3. The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath’s Ariel --; 4. Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell’s Day by Day --; 5. Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and Geography III --; 6. Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and A Scattering of Salts --; Notes --; The Andrew W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, 1952–2007; restricted access
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400834327?locatt=mode:legacy
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