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In this companion to the works of W. S. Merwin, H. L. Hix surveys the Pulitzer Prize-winning poet's canon to show that despite its reputation for difficulty and obscurity, Merwin's verse is clear and direct. Describing Merwin as a moral poet, Hix identifies the characteristics that distinguish Merwin's voice and suggests that an underlying vision of human interconnectedness and affinity with nature permeates his poetry. Through close readings of Merwin's verse, Hix traces the emergence of the poet's dominant thematic concerns. Beginning with the interest in myth found in A Mask for Janus, Green with Beasts, and Writings to an Unfinished Acccompaniment, he shows how the thematic focus turns successively to apocalypse, ecology, and society, until Merwin arrives at one theme that incorporates all the others: the theme of place. Hix demonstrates that whether writing the angry protest poems of The Lice or the intimate family reminiscences of Opening the Hand, Merwin maintains the consistent premise that our isolation from each other and our isolation from the natural world are parallel and interrelated.
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Jeff Wend
reviewed Understanding W. S. Merwin on January 30, 2015
Understanding W. S. Merwin
A scholarly, but very accessible look at literature aimed at young girls beginning with Louisa May Alcott's "Little Women" and ending with Nancy Drew. The author, a professor from Belfast, Northern Ireland, traces the "selling of womanhood" through literature as it relates to such sociological issues as gender, race, class, buying power and morality. Very often an author played out on the page her own dichotomy. Is the desire and ability for the acqusition of material goods "bad", or is it "good?" Are riches reserved for the worthy, i.e. those born into a certain class or race? Or can one pull oneself up by the bootsraps i.e. the American Dream? Does a woman need to marry money, or can she make money? And if she does make money can she do so without help and without losing her femininity?
Fascinating, too, are the absolutely draw-dropping excerpts from two series in particular. The first is The Motor Girls which was, even for the day, rife with sexual tension, particularly around a character named Walter, not to mention lax in adult supervision. The other is the mean-spirited, extremely ugly racuism in the books of Gene Stratton Porter.
All told, a very provacative book. I enjoyed it.
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