Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives

Langdell, Cheri Colby

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.

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Published by: Palgrave Macmillan

Publication Date: 2023-01-02

Format: Hardcover

ISBN-13: 9783031131561

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-13157-8

Dimensions: 210.0cm x148.0cm

Pages: 363.0