Description
With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet.
Following the title poem, Merwin presents works by Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Muir, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, David Jones, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, Howard Moss, Robert Graves, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, and James Merrill. Photographs and brief biographies of the poets are also included.
Lament for the Makers connects the work of one of our most gifted contemporary poets with the modern masters who have defined the twentieth-century poetic tradition.
Author: Darian Leader
Publisher: Counterpoint LLC
Published: 09/30/2004
Pages: 202
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.51lbs
Size: 8.00h x 4.68w x 0.64d
ISBN13: 9781593760397
ISBN10: 1593760396
BISAC Categories:
- Art | History | General
- Psychology | Cognitive Psychology & Cognition
- Art | Criticism & Theory
About the Author
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and founding member of the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research in London.