The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition by Helen Vendler
The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition

Helen Vendler

The Given and the Made: Strategies of Poetic Redefinition

Helen Vendler

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Fate hands every poet certain unavoidable "givens." Of the poets Vendler studies, Robert Lowell sprang from a family famous in American and especially New England history; John Berryman found himself an alcoholic manic-depressive; Rita Dove was bo...

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