Edition |
1st ed. |
Description |
viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. |
Series |
A Borzoi book |
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Borzoi book.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-311) and index. |
Contents |
Prelude: The Vortex, April 1959 -- 1. The State of the Art in Boston, 1955 -- 2. The Narrator, 1955-1993 -- 3. Speak of the World's Own Change: Richard Wilbur, 1955-1957 -- 4. In Search of Ararat: W.S. Merwin, 1956-1959 -- 5. Country Matters: Maxine Kumin, Donald Hall, Philip Booth, 1955-1960 -- 6. A New Skin: Anne Sexton, 1956-1961 -- 7. Your Day Approaches: Sylvia Plath, 1957-1959 -- 8. More Merciless to Herself Than History: Adrienne Rich, 1955-1960 -- 9. Mark Time: L.E. Sissman, 1956-1963 -- 10. Be Patient with My Wound: Stanley Kunitz, 1958-1959 -- 11. Out of Bounds: Robert Lowell, 1955-1960. |
Summary |
An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor, was swept up in a world - in a tumult - of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century. Through their eyes as well as his own, and often in their words, Davison presents a sharply fresh vision of the shift from confidence to a troubled questioning that overtook America - a transformation that was, in a sense, foreshadowed in the sensibilities, in the writings, sometimes in the lives, of some of our finest poets. |
Subject |
Davison, Peter, 1928-2004 -- Friends and associates.
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American poetry -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History and criticism.
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Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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Boston (Mass.) -- In literature.
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Davison, Peter, 1928- -- Friends and associates.
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18.06 Anglo-American literature. (NL-LeOCL)077611985
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Davison, Peter, 1928-2004 (OCoLC)fst01427532
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American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
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Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
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Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
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Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
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Poets, American -- Homes and haunts.
(OCoLC)fst01067804
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Massachusetts -- Boston.
(OCoLC)fst01205012
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Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5
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Dichters.
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Amerikaans.
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American poetry -- History and criticism.
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American poetry -- 1900-1999.
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American poets -- Biography.
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Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
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Plath, Sylvia.
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Frost, Robert.
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Lowell, Robert Schriftsteller, 1917-1977.
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United States.
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Englisch.
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Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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Indexed Term |
American poetry History and criticism 20th century |
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American poetry History and criticism Massachusetts Boston |
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Boston (Mass.) In literature |
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Boston (Mass.) Intellectual life 20th century |
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Davison, Peter Friends and associates |
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Poets, American Homes and haunts Massachusetts Boston |
Genre/Form |
Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
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Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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Biographies.
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Other Form: |
Online version: Davison, Peter. Fading smile. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1994 (OCoLC)624509776 |
ISBN |
0679406581 |
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9780679406587 |
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0393313581 |
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9780393313581 |
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