Coming of Age as a Poet: Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

by Helen Vendler

Book Overview

To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem--a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style--is to come of age as a poet. By looking at the precedents, circumstances, and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, John Keats, T. S. Eliot, and Sylvia Plath, Coming of Age as a Poet offers rare insight into this mysterious process, and into the indispensable...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0674013832
• ISBN13: 9780674013834
• Release Date: April 2004
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Length: 192 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.3" x 8.2"