" Such self-indulgence... ultimately threatened no one"

It’s second generation, which emerged in the 1940’s - Howard Nemerov, Randall Jarrell, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, Delmore Schwartz, Richard Wilbur, Anthony Hecht, John Berryman, among many others - would fuse these techniques with postwar malaise, and an interest in psychoanalysis and existent…

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