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The fading smile : poets in Boston, from Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath / Peter Davison.
LIBRA PS255.B6 D38 1996 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Davison, Peter, 1928-2004.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American poetry--Massachusetts--Boston--History and criticism.
- American poetry.
- American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- Poets, American--Massachusetts--Boston--Biography.
- Poets, American.
- Boston (Mass.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
- Boston (Mass.).
- Davison, Peter, 1928-2004--Friends and associates.
- Davison, Peter.
- Davison, Peter, 1928-2004.
- Friends and associates.
- Massachusetts--Boston.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copies 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- viii, 346 pages, 10 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : W.W. Norton, 1996.
- Summary:
- This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W.S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped American poetry at mid-century. Illustrated.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 304-311) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0393313581
- 9780393313581
- OCLC:
- 34287346
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