Description
Awarded the Yale Younger Poets Prize by W. H. Auden, this debut collection introduces a poet drawn to the myths, legends, and literary traditions of ancient civilizations. Its formally crafted poems move through masks, seasons, mortality, and transformation, revealing an imagination attentive to the symbolic life of the past and its echoes in the present. Influenced by medieval poetry, classical culture, and Merwin’s early work as a translator, the collection displays the artistry and disciplined formalism of his beginnings while hinting at the distinctive poetic evolution to come.
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hardcover
Ams Pr Inc
Published Jan 1, 1970
ISBN: 9780404538491
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First Published
1952
Language
eng
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