Last looks, last Books

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This is the fifty-sixth volume of the A. W. Mellon Lectures in the Fine Arts, which are delivered annually at the National Gallery of Art, Washington. The volumes of lectures constitute Number XXXV in Bollingen Series, sponsored by the Bollingen Foundation.

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Vendler, Helen, 1933-
Last looks, last books : Stevens, Plath, Lowell, Bishop, Merrill / Helen Vendler.
p. cm. — (The A.W. Mellon lectures in the fine arts ; 2007) (Bollingen series ; XXXV, 56)

ISBN 978-0-691-14534-1 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. American poetry—20th century—History and criticism. 2. Death in literature. I. Title.
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