Search Results: Last Looks Last Books by Helen Vendler

Princeton, New Jersey: Princeton Univ Press, 2010. -----The scan you see is the book you get. White boards with silver lettering, headband, x + 152 pages, Near Fine condition, dust jacket is in Near Fine condition with fold to inside front flap. "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." Contents include: Introduction: Last Looks, Last Books / Looking at the Worst: Wallace Stevens's "The Rock" / The Contest of Melodrama and Restraint: Sylvia Plath's "Ariel" / Images of Subtraction: Robert Lowell's "Day by Day" / Caught and Freed: Elizabeth Bishop and "Geography III" / Self-Portraits While Dying: James Merrill and "A Scattering of Salts" / Notes. Check out the scans. . First Edition First Printing. Hard Cover. Near Fine/Near Fine. Illus. by Front cover:… Read More

Hardback. New. 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. This title focuses on the books: "The Rock", "Ariel", "Day by Day", "Geography III" and "A Scattering of Salts".

Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. Fine/Fine. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. First first printing. Clean, square, binding tight. No internal markings. Jacket equally fine. No tears or creases. A lovely copy. The 2007 A.W. Mellon Lecture in the Fine Arts. An assessment of the last books published by 5 prominent American poets, given by the noted literary scholar.

hardcover. Good. Access codes and supplements are not guaranteed with used items. May be an ex-library book.

Princeton University Press. New. Special order direct from the distributor

Princeton University Press, 2010. 1st Edition . Hardcover. As New/Dust Jacket Included. 8vo - over 7¾ - 9¾" tall. 56th volume of AW Mellon Lectures in Fine Arts 2007. Spotless blue cloth boards, gilt titles on spine. No shelf wear. Bright cut edges, endpapers and text block. Appears unread. Binding solid. Unworn illustrated jacket.