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Last Looks, Last Books: Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill

Kingsley Porter University Professor Helen Vendler, a venerable critic, takes another crack at the 20th century’s greatest poets’ last works and how their style reflects their contemplations of death.

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The Poetics of the Everyday: Creative Repetition in Modern American Verse

Siobhan Phillips, a junior fellow in Harvard’s Society of Fellows, revisits those well-known poetic masters — Stevens, Frost, Bishop, and Merrill — and analyzes how they transformed quotidian rituals...

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Poetry in motion

It was a very poetic thing to do, departing Harvard to live in a tent. Robert Lowell — of the aristocratic Boston Lowells, an illustrious family that even included one of Harvard’s past presidents, A....

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A close reading of Elizabeth Bishop

A new book on Elizabeth Bishop offers readers a revealing look at how the professional and private lives of one of the greatest American poets of the 20th century often converged. “Elizabeth Bishop: A...

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At Harvard’s Houghton Library, the beauty of the book in all its forms

For the first-year seminar “Harvard’s Greatest Hits,” David Stern wanted his small group of 21st-century hyperconnected undergraduates to put down their tablets, smartphones, and laptops and to pick up...

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