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Highlights
- With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time.
- About the Author: Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and founding member of the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research in London.
- 202 Pages
- Art, History
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About the Book
Taking the intriguing story of the Mona Lisa's two-year disappearance as his starting point, Darian Leader explores the psychology of looking at visual art.Book Synopsis
With Lament for the Makers W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet.
Following the title poem, Merwin presents works by Dylan Thomas, Wallace Stevens, Edwin Muir, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Ezra Pound, David Jones, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright, Howard Moss, Robert Graves, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, and James Merrill. Photographs and brief biographies of the poets are also included.
Lament for the Makers connects the work of one of our most gifted contemporary poets with the modern masters who have defined the twentieth-century poetic tradition.
About the Author
Darian Leader is a psychoanalyst and founding member of the Center for Freudian Analysis and Research in London.