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

ISBN 10: 3031131584 / ISBN 13: 9783031131585

Published by Palgrave Macmillan, 2023

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading W.S. Merwin in a New Century: American and European Perspectives
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3031131584
• ISBN 13: 9783031131585
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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.