The Given and the Made Strategies of Poetic Redefinition |
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Author:
| Vendler, Helen H. |
ISBN: | 978-0-674-35432-6 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
Publisher: | Harvard University Press
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Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $15.00 |
Book Description:
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To explore how a poet repeatedly makes art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate, Helen Vendler looks at the work of four American poets--Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Rita Dove and Jorie Graham--and suggests a new way of understanding poetic strategies.
To explore how a poet repeatedly makes art over a lifetime out of an arbitrary assignment of fate, Helen Vendler looks at the work of four American poets--Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Rita Dove and Jorie Graham--and suggests a new way of understanding poetic strategies.