Title: The given and the made
First published: 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: Psychological aspects of Poetry, Theory, History and criticism, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, American poetry, Psychological aspects, Lyric poetry, Self in literature, Gedichten, Critique et interprétation, Histoire et critique, Geschichte 1945-1995, University of South Alabama, Poésie américaine, Lyrik, Zelf, American poetry, history and criticism, 20th century
People: John Berryman (1914-1972), Jorie Graham, Jorie Graham (1951-), Rita Dove, Robert Lowell (1917-1977)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PS323.5 .V39 1995