About this book
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
Psychological aspects of PoetryTheoryHistory and criticismCriticism and interpretationPoetryAmerican poetryPsychological aspectsLyric poetrySelf in literatureGedichtenCritique et interprétationHistoire et critiqueGeschichte 1945-1995University of South AlabamaPoésie américaineLyrikZelfAmerican poetry, history and criticism, 20th century