The Fading Smile - Poets in Boston, 1995-1960, From Robert Frost to Robert Lowell to Sylvia Plath (Hardcover)

No one has attempted so knowing and evocative a description of this literary milieu. . . . Davidson s approach is both novel and illuminating. He presents his authors individually and as] a group, carefully tracing their relation to one another. . . . He is uniquely qualified to chronicle the complex story. He is the ultimate literary Boston insider not only the longtime poetry editor for the Atlantic Montly but successively a key editor at three major publishing houses. The author of nine volumes of poetry, he knew all the major characters of his narrative personally. . . . His book] provides a candid, first-hand account of the mid-century poetic revolution. Dana Gioia, Washington Post Book World"