aging in literature

Examines the later works of four twentieth century American poets--T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, and William Carlos Williams--to deduce insights about aging. Explores ideas about the experience of aging, creative fulfillment, wisdom, and enjoyment in old age.

Offers some two hundred and fifty pieces that illuminate the pleasures, pains, dreams, and triumphs of people as they strive to live out their days in a meaningful way. Fiction, poetry, memoirs, essays, children's stories, excerpts from the Koran and the Bible - the variety of witings is remarkable.