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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

(Princeton University Press, March 2010)

By Helen Vendler



Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, a venerable critic, takes another crack at the 20th century’s greatest poets’ last works and how their style reflects their contemplations of death.