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.”
| ISBN: | 9780300246384 |
| Publication date: | 14th January 2020 |
| Author: | W S Merwin |
| Publisher: | Yale University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 96 pages |
| Series: | Yale Series of Younger Poets |
| Genres: |
Poetry |
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.”
A Mask for Janus features in the following genres: Poetry
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A Mask for Janus was written by W S Merwin and published by Yale University Press
A Mask for Janus has 96 pages
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