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Author Davison, Peter, 1928-2004.

Title The fading smile : poets in Boston, 1955-1960 from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath / Peter Davison.

Imprint New York : Knopf, 1994.

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Location Call No. Status
 East Windsor, Library Association of Warehouse Point - Adult Department  811.54 DAV    Check Shelf
 University of Saint Joseph: Pope Pius XII Library - Standard Shelving Location  811.5409 D265F    Check Shelf
Edition 1st ed.
Description viii, 346 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Series A Borzoi book
Borzoi book.
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.
American poetry -- Massachusetts -- Boston -- History and criticism.
Poets, American -- Homes and haunts -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
Boston (Mass.) -- In literature.
Davison, Peter, 1928- -- Friends and associates.
18.06 Anglo-American literature. (NL-LeOCL)077611985
Davison, Peter, 1928-2004 (OCoLC)fst01427532
American poetry. (OCoLC)fst00807348
Friendship. (OCoLC)fst00935174
Intellectual life. (OCoLC)fst00975769
Literature. (OCoLC)fst00999953
Poets, American -- Homes and haunts. (OCoLC)fst01067804
Massachusetts -- Boston. (OCoLC)fst01205012
Literatur (DE-588)4035964-5
Dichters.
Amerikaans.
American poetry -- History and criticism.
American poetry -- 1900-1999.
American poets -- Biography.
Boston (Mass.) -- Intellectual life.
Plath, Sylvia.
Frost, Robert.
Lowell, Robert Schriftsteller, 1917-1977.
United States.
Englisch.
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Indexed Term American poetry History and criticism 20th century
American poetry History and criticism Massachusetts Boston
Boston (Mass.) In literature
Boston (Mass.) Intellectual life 20th century
Davison, Peter Friends and associates
Poets, American Homes and haunts Massachusetts Boston
Genre/Form Biographies. (OCoLC)fst01919896
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
Biographies.
Other Form: Online version: Davison, Peter. Fading smile. 1st ed. New York : Knopf, 1994 (OCoLC)624509776
ISBN 0679406581
9780679406587
0393313581
9780393313581
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