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The Fading Smile: Poets in Boston, 1995-1960, from Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath

By (author) Peter Davison

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This extraordinary account, by a participant who knew them all, offers vivid reminiscences of Robert Lowell, Adrienne Rich, Stanley Kunitz, Sylvia Plath, Richard Wilbur, Anne Sexton, W. S. Merwin, and many others who interacted with each other and shaped American poetry at mid-century.

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Publisher | WW Norton & Co
Published date | 17 Mar 1996
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Format | Paperback / softback
Pages | 368
Dimensions | 231 x 142 x 18mm (L x W x H)
Weight | 469g
ISBN | 978-0-3933-1358-1
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BISAC | literary criticism / poetry

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