A Mask for Janus.

Merwin, W. S. (Foreword By W.H. Auden)

ISBN 10: 0300246382 / ISBN 13: 9780300246384

Published by New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019., 2019

About this Item

Centenary Edition, 1st printing with complete number row. (originally published in 1952.) 67pp, (5x8 inches). NF in white wrappers (softcover). Covers lightly sunned (darkened at upper edge) . Has been barely damp at lower spine. no visibel damage, but the book "crinkles" when you leaf through it. Contents clean, tight, no tears or creases, no markings. Yale Series of Younger Poets, Vol 49.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: A Mask for Janus.
• Publisher: New Haven: Yale University Press, 2019.
• Publication Date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0300246382
• ISBN 13: 9780300246384
• Binding: Soft cover
• Illustrator: .
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Seller catalogs:
  • Poets and poetry

About this title

Synopsis

A collection centered in myth, A Mask for Janus is the 49th volume of the Yale Series of Younger Poets
 
While Merwin’s poetry as a whole is grounded in the poetic forms of many eras and societies, this first collection is inspired by classical models. Writing in American Poetry Review, Vernon Young traces the poems to “Biblical tales, Classical myth, love songs from the Age of Chivalry, Renaissance retellings; they comprise carols, roundels, odes, ballads, sestinas, and they contrive golden equivalents of emblematic models: the masque, the Zodiac, the Dance of Death.”

About the Author

William Stanley Merwin is an American poet, credited with over fifty books of poetry, translation, and prose. He has received many honors, including two Pulitzer Prizes for Poetry (1971 and 2009) and the Tanning Prize, one of the highest honors bestowed by the Academy of American Poets. He served as United States Poet Laureate twice, from 1999–2000 and 2010–2011.