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.”
- ISBN10 0300246382
- ISBN13 9780300246384
- Publish Date 14 January 2020
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 23 May 2024
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Yale University Press
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Pages 96
- Language English
- URL http://wiley.com/remtitle.cgi?isbn=9780300246384