Can I read The Poetry of Louise Glück : A Thematic Introduction on EtoBox?

The Poetry of Louise Glück : A Thematic Introduction by Dwight Browne is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.

What is The Poetry of Louise Glück : A Thematic Introduction about?

A dominant figure in American poetry for more than thirty-five years, Louise Glück has been the recipient of virtually every major poetry award. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2020 and was named U.S. poet laureate for 2003–2004. In a full-length study of her work, Daniel Morris explores how this prolific poet utilizes masks of characters from history, the Bible, and even fairy tales. Morris treats Glück's persistent themes—desire, hunger, trauma, survival—through close reading of her major book-length sequences from the 1990s: Ararat, Meadowlands, and The Wild Iris. An additional chapter devoted to The House on Marshland (1975) shows how its revision of Romanticism and nature poetry anticipated these later works. Seeing Glück's poems as complex analyses of the authorial self via sustained central metaphors, Morris reads her poetry against a narrative pattern that shifts from the tones of anger, despair, and resentment found in her early Firstborn to the resignation of Ararat—and proceeds in her latest volumes, including Vita Nova and Averno, toward an ambivalent embrace of embodied life. By showing how Glück's poems may be read as a form of commentary on the meanings of g

Who reads The Poetry of Louise Glück : A Thematic Introduction?

Author

Dwight Browne

Publisher

University of Missouri Press

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780826216939

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Poetry, Literary Fiction