Inventions of Farewell: A Book of Elegies - Couverture rigide

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ISBN 10 : 0393049728 ISBN 13 : 9780393049725

Editeur : W. W. Norton & Company, 2001

Synopsis

Inventions of Farewell collects English language poems of mourning from the late Middle Ages to the present. Aesthetic assumptions and poetic styles have altered over the centuries, yet the great and often terrifying themes of time, change, age, and death are timeless. The poems here--from Emily Dickinson, Wallace Stevens, and Edna St. Vincent Millay to Sharon Olds, Stanley Kunitz, and W. S. Merwin--trace the trajectory of grief, but they also illustrate how the deepest sorrow has produced countless poignant and resonant works of art--words that can aid us as we struggle with our own farewells.

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sandra M. Gilbert (1936--2024) was a distinguished literary critic and poet. Together with Susan Gubar, she was awarded the Ivan Sandrof Lifetime Achievement Award from the NBCC.

Arguably America's greatest poet, Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen of her eighteen hundred poems during her lifetime.

Wallace Stevens was an American poet and lawyer.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: W. W. Norton & Company
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0393049728
• ISBN 13: 9780393049725
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 480
• Éditeur: Gilbert Professor Sandra M
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