Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Summary & Study Guide
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver Overview
Devotions is a collection of poetry that spans the length of Mary Oliver's more than fifty-year career, starting with her final book of poetry and proceeding in reverse-chronological order back to Oliver's first book in 1963. The poems within are generally written from a tight, first-person point of view to present musings on the natural world and the sense of spirituality through nature. The reverse-chronological order allows Oliver to begin by establishing the conclusions she has come to over the course of her career, and then to work backwards, showing the thought process for how she reached them.
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At the onset of her career as a poet, Mary Oliver seems almost literally to have followed in the footsteps of Edna St. Vincent Millay, whose lyrical manner influenced Oliver's early work. Both were "c...
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The writing career of poet Mary Oliver spans three decades. She has produced thirteen volumes of poetry and prose and two books on the craft of writing poetry. Oliver's poetry offers a transcendental ...
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