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<p>In this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Man Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experiment-from the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montage-like methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James Wright and W. S. Merwin to the radical plainness of Frank Bidart. Williamson examines these and other poets from a psychological perspective, giving an especially striking reading of Sylvia Plath.</p><p>Williamson discusses some problems involved in self-analytic poetry-the ambiguous question of universality, the difficulties of objectifying oneâs own personality, and the perhaps greater difficulties of attempting a poetry that is inward but not personal. He takes up the poets individually, characterizing their work and its development and offering balanced, considered judgments on particular poems. Displaying a remarkable grasp of American postwar culture, he places the poetry within the broad setting of contemporary events and domin

Author

Alan Williamson, Williamson, Alan

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1984

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674462762

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, Humanities