The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath,

The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath, image
ISBN-10:

0679406581

ISBN-13:

9780679406587

Author(s): DAVISON, Peter
Edition: First Edition
Released: Aug 09, 1994
Publisher: KNOPF
Format: Hardcover, 346 pages
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Description:

"A beautiful and richly instructive book, a worthy and welcome sequel to Eileen Simpson's Poets in Their Youth."

Louis S. Auchincloss

An intimately perceptive account, by a poet who knew them all, of the brilliant circle of poets who lived and worked in Boston through the half-decade beginning in 1955. That was the year Peter Davison, coming to Boston as a book editor. was swept up in a world -- in a tumult -- of poetry. He rediscovered his father's old friend Robert Frost. He briefly squired Sylvia Plath. He came to know Robert Lowell (whose poems and private disasters dominated the period) and Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Richard Wilbur. Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and others who, closely bound together in friendship or rivalry or both, defined the shape of American poetry at mid-century Through their eves as well as his own, and often in their words, Davison presents a sharply fresh vision of the shift from confidence to a troubled questioning that overtook America -- a transformation that was, in a sense, foreshadowed in the sensibilities, in the writings, sometimes in the lives, of some of our finest poets.


























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