Purchase
“This volume exudes warmth and appreciation.”
—Year’s Work in English Studies
Contributions by George Bailin, Jane S. Bakerman, Charles E. Frank, Carolyn Heilbrun, Mary Lydon, Henry Taylor, Deborah Thyng, and others. Comprehensive bibliography of works by and about May Sarton.
Contents
An Eccentric Biography
Constance Hunting, “An Eccentric Biography”
The Autobiographer
Charles E. Frank, “May Sarton: Approaches to Autobiography”
Carolyn G. Heilbrun, “May Sarton’s Memoirs”
Suzanne Owens, “House, Home and Solitude: Memoirs and Journals of May Sarton”
The Novelist
Mary Lydon, “A French View of May Sarton”
Deborah Thyng, “‘The Action of the Beautiful’: The Concept of Balance in the Writings of May Sarton”
Renée Creange, “The Country of the Imagination”
Sheila Shaw, “Living Rooms: Amity in the Novels of May Sarton”
Jane S. Bakerman, “Patterns of Love and Friendship: Five Novels by May Sarton”
Jane S. Bakerman, “May Sarton’s The Small Room: A Comparison and an Analysis”
Mary Bryan, “Rage for Justice: Political, Social and Moral Consciousness in Selected Novels of May Sarton”
Jane S. Bakerman, “Perimeters of Power: An Examination of As We Are Now”
Gayle Gaskill, “Redefinitions of Traditional Christian Emblems and Outlooks in May Sarton’s Novels of 1970-1975”
The Poet
Sigrid H. Fowler, “A Note on May Sarton’s Use of Form”
Darlene Mathis Eddy, “The Sculptor and the Rock: Some Uses of Myth in the Poetry of May Sarton”
Maureen Connelly, “Metaphor in Five Garden Poems by May Sarton”
Henry Taylor, “The Singing Wound: Intensifying Paradoxes in May Sarton’s ‘A Divorce of Lovers’”
Constance Hunting, “‘The Risk Is Very Great’: The Poetry of May Sarton”
The Testament
Paula G. Putney, “‘Sister of the Mirage and Echo’: An Interview with May Sarton”
Karla Hammond, “To Be Reborn: An Interview with May Sarton”
Karla Hammond, “A Further Interview with May Sarton”
Robin Kaplan and Shelley Neiderbach, “‘I Live Alone in a Very Beautiful Place’: An Interview with May Sarton”
The Summing Up
George Bailin, “A Shining in the Dark: May Sarton’s Accomplishment”
Bibliography
Lenora P. Blouin, “A Revised Bibliography”