Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. 277-294) and index.
Table of Contents
Introduction -- Wallace Stevens' route-- transcendence downward -- W.H. Auden's way : toward the city-- from the "suburb of dissent" -- Theodore Roethke's doxology -- Elizabeth Bishop-- poet without myth -- Robert Penn Warren's career in poetry : taking counsel of the heart alone -- The poetry of Richard Wilbur-- "the splendor of mere being" -- The poetry of A.R. Ammons -- James Wright's lyricism -- Howard Nemerov's broken music.