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Mythologies of nothing : mystical death in American poetry, 1940-70

Title
Mythologies of nothing : mystical death in American poetry, 1940-70 / Anthony Libby.
Author
Libby, Anthony, 1942-
Publication
Urbana : University of Illinois Press, ©1984.

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Description
225 pages; 24 cm
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Nothing (Philosophy) in literature
  • Death in literature
  • Mysticism in literature
  • Negativity (Philosophy) in literature
  • Negation (Logic) in literature
  • American poetry
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"The delineaments of the giants": T.S. Eliot ; William Carlos Williams ; Wallace Stevens ; Three mythologies -- The ocean gods of Robert Lowell -- Roethke, water father -- Sylvia Plath, God's lioness and the priest of sycorax -- Robert Bly, unknowing, knowing -- W.S. Merwin and the nothing that is -- Journey to love.
ISBN
  • 0252010493
  • 9780252010491
LCCN
83003460
OCLC
  • ocm09324150
  • 9324150
  • SCSB-602414
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library