Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for University Teachers

Period of Performance

7/1/2005 - 6/30/2006

Funding Totals

$40,000.00 (approved)
$40,000.00 (awarded)


The Final Volumes of Poets Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Merrill, and Ammons

FAIN: FA-51764-05

Helen H. Vendler
President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)

A scrutiny of the pressure exerted by imminent death on the language and imaginative structures of poems in the last published books of Stevens, Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Merrill, and Ammons.





Associated Products

Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill (Book)
Title: Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill
Author: Helen Vendler
Abstract: In Last Looks, Last Books, the eminent critic Helen Vendler examines the ways in which five great modern American poets, writing their final books, try to find a style that does justice to life and death alike.
Year: 2010
Primary URL: http://www.worldcat.org/title/last-looks-last-books-stevens-plath-lowell-bishop-merrill/oclc/441947066
Publisher: Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press
Type: Other
ISBN: 9780691145341