Notes from a Bottle Found on the Beach at Carmel (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Evan S. Connell, Jr.
- First Published: 1963
- Type of Work: Poetry
- Genres: Poetry, Lyric poetry
- Subjects: Voyages, Authors or writers, Poetry or poets, Dreams, Novelists, Sea or seafaring life, Pilgrims or pilgrimages, Paganism
Critical Evaluation:
In NOTES FROM A BOTTLE FOUND ON THE BEACH AT CARMEL, Evan S. Connell, Jr., has boldly and simply accomplished what was only recently called the impossible. He has written a long, complex, subtle, book-length modern poem which is at once readable and worthy of admission into the small group of major poems written in our time. Known as a gifted short story writer and novelist, Connell’s interest in poetry and, more important, his ease and ability in handling complex verse forms and conventions, were virtually unknown until a version of this poem...
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