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Coming of age as a poet

Milton, Keats, Eliot, Plath

by Helen Hennessy Vendler

2003 174 pages eng

"To find a personal style is, for a writer, to become adult; and to write one's first "perfect" poem - a poem that wholly and successfully embodies that style - is to come of age as a poet. By looking at the precedents, circumstances, and artistry of the first perfect poems composed by John Milton, …

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