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The Wounded Surgeon: Confessions and Transformations in Six American Poets

The Wounded Surgeon: Confessions and Transformations in Six American Poets

Kirsch, Adam
Kirsch, Adam

Paperback

Poetry CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 0393339351
ISBN13: 9780393339352
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Published: Apr 1 2005
Pages: 318
Weight: 0.89
Height: 0.71 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English

Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath, John Berryman, Randall Jarrell, and Delmore Schwartz formed one of the great constellations of talent in American literature. In the decades after World War II, they changed American poetry forever by putting themselves at risk in their poems in a new and provocative way. Their daring work helped to inspire the popular style of poetry now known as confessional. But partly as a result of their openness, they have become better known for their tumultuous lives--afflicted by mental illness, alcoholism, and suicide--than for their work. This book reclaims their achievement by offering critical biographies of the poetry--tracing the development of each poet's work, exploring their major themes and techniques, and examining how they transformed life into art. An ideal introduction for readers coming to these major American poets for the first time, it will also help veteran readers to appreciate their work in a new light.

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