merwin, w. s

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Provides analysis of the most frequently studied poems in literature courses. Contains author biography (if attributed), poem text, poem summary, themes, style, historical context, critical overview, and criticism.

Presents twenty-three works of criticism on five poems by twentieth-century American writer W. S. Merwin, and provides a Merwin biography, primary and secondary bibliographies, and an index of themes and ideas.

Poet W.S. Merwin chronicles his life in Europe in the years before he won the Yale Younger Poets Award in 1952.