With "Lament for the Makers" W. S. Merwin honors the lives and work
of twenty-three poets of our time. Each of them has been important
to him, and all of them died during his life as a poet.
Following the title poem, Merwin presents works by Dylan Thomas,
Wallace Stevens, Edwin Muir, Sylvia Plath, William Carlos Williams,
Robert Frost, Theodore Roethke, Louis MacNeice, T. S. Eliot,
Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, W. H. Auden, Marianne Moore, Ezra
Pound, David Jones, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, James Wright,
Howard Moss, Robert Graves, Howard Nemerov, William Stafford, and
James Merrill. Photographs and brief biographies of the poets are
also included.
"Lament for the Makers" connects the work of one of our most gifted
contemporary poets with the modern masters who have defined the
twentieth-century poetic tradition.
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