Publication

1995 - Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

34,500 words, Guess

Page Count

138 pages

Identifiers

and 2 more
  • Goodreads493842
  • LibraryThing3786833

Classifications

  • DDC810.9/005
  • LCCPS323.5 .V39 1995

Description

How does a poet repeatedly over a lifetime make art out of an arbitrary assignment of fate? By asking this question of the work of four American poets - two men of the postwar generation, two young women writing today - Helen Vendler suggests a fruitful way of looking at a poet's career and a new way of understanding poetic strategies as both mastery of forms and forms of mastery.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • The given and the made: strategies of poetic redefinitionHarvard University Press1995-01-01

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