The Wounded Surgeon: Confession And Transformation In Six American Poets : Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, John Berryman, Randa

Documents how the poets Lowell, Bishop, Plath, Berryman, Jarrell, and Schwartz changed the face of American poetry in the decades after World War II by creating the style of poetry now known as 'confessional,' in an account that traces each writer's major themes, techniques, and transformations of life into art. 10,000 first printing.