Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives
Cheri Colby Langdell
This edited collection explores the work of highly awarded and twice American Poet Laureate W. S. Merwin. Spanning Merwin’s early career, his mid-career success, his Hawaiian epic, his eco-poetry, his lesser-known later poetry and the influence of Buddhism on his work, the volume offers new perspectives on Merwin as a major poet. Exploring his works across the twentieth and twenty-first century, this collection presents Merwin as a necessary and contemporary poet. It emphasizes contemporary readings of Merwin as an environmental advocate, showing how his poetry seeks to help each reader re-establish an intimate relationship with the natural world. It also highlights how Merwin’s work presents our place in history as a pivotal moment of transition into a new era of international cooperation. This volume both celebrates his life and writing and takes scholarship on his work forward into the new century.
Year:
2023
Publisher:
Springer Nature
Language:
english
Pages:
368
ISBN 10:
3031131568
ISBN 13:
9783031131561
File:
EPUB, 4.50 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2023
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