The given and the made
Subtitle: strategies of poetic redefinition
By: Helen Vendler.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
Number of pages: 138
Subjects: Berryman, John, 1914-1972 -- Criticism and interpretation; Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation; Graham, Jorie, 1951- -- Criticism and interpretation; Dove, Rita -- Criticism and interpretation; American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Poetry -- Psychological aspects; Self in literature
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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 133-[139]).
Originally presented as the author's T.S. Eliot memorial lectures (Canterbury, University of Kent).