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Author Libby, Anthony, 1942-

Title Mythologies of nothing : mystical death in American poetry, 1940-70 / Anthony Libby.

Publication Info. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, [1984]
©1984

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Location Call No. Status OPAC Message Public Note Gift Note
 Moore Stacks  PS310.N66 L5 1984    Available  ---
Description 225 pages ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents "The delineaments of the giants": T.S. Eliot ; William Carlos Williams ; Wallace Stevens ; Three mythologies -- Ocean gods of Robert Lowell -- Roethke, water father -- Sylvia Plath, God's lioness and the priest of sycorax -- Robert Bly, unknowing, knowing -- W.S. Merwin and the nothing that is -- Journey to love.
Form Also issued online.
Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
American poetry.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Nothing (Philosophy) in literature.
Nothing (Philosophy) in literature.
Death in literature.
Death in literature.
Mysticism in literature.
Mysticism in literature.
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
Negativity (Philosophy) in literature.
Negation (Logic) in literature.
Negation (Logic) in literature.
Other Form: Online version: Libby, Anthony, 1942- Mythologies of nothing. Urbana : University of Illinois Press, c1984 (OCoLC)566083363
ISBN 0252010493
9780252010491