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Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Title:
Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Author:
Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Personal Author:
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, [2010]

©2010
Physical Description:
x, 152 pages ; 23 cm.
General Note:
"National Gallery of Art, Washington."--T.p.
Language:
English
Contents:
Introduction: last looks, last books -- Looking at the worst: Wallace Stevens's 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.
ISBN:
9780691145341
Format :
Book