Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill /
Vendler, Helen,1933-
Princeton, N.J. ; Oxford : Princeton University Press,
c2010.
"National Gallery of Art, Washington."--T.p.
Includes bibliographical references.
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.
American poetry
Death in literature.