Title: The given and the made : strategies of poetic redefinition /
Authors: Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Publisher: Harvard University Press,
Year: 1995
Subjects: Berryman, John, Criticism and interpretation.; Lowell, Robert, Criticism and interpretation.; Dove, Rita Criticism and interpretation.; Graham, Jorie, Criticism and interpretation.; American poetry History and criticism Theory, etc.; Self in literature.; Poetry Psychological aspects
Abstract: 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.
Contents: I. Robert Lowell and History -- II. John Berryman: Freudian Cartoons -- III. Rita Dove: Identity Markers -- IV. Jorie Graham: The Nameless and the Material.