PHILIP MCGOWAN is Lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He has previously taught at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published on a range of topics and authors including Middle Generation poetry, temperance literature, John Berryman, and Saul Bellow. His first book was American Carnival: Seeing and Reaing American Culture (Greenwood, 2001).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sexton's Obsessive CombinationsFirst CollectionsLife and Death and LoveSexton's TransformationsReligion and TormentPoetry RepeatingAfterwordWorks ConsultedIndex

PHILIP MCGOWAN is Lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He has previously taught at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published on a range of topics and authors including Middle Generation poetry, temperance literature, John Berryman, and Saul Bellow. His first book was American Carnival: Seeing and Reaing American Culture (Greenwood, 2001).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sexton's Obsessive CombinationsFirst CollectionsLife and Death and LoveSexton's TransformationsReligion and TormentPoetry RepeatingAfterwordWorks ConsultedIndex

PHILIP MCGOWAN is Lecturer in American Literature at Goldsmiths' College, University of London. He has previously taught at Trinity College, Dublin. He has published on a range of topics and authors including Middle Generation poetry, temperance literature, John Berryman, and Saul Bellow. His first book was American Carnival: Seeing and Reaing American Culture (Greenwood, 2001).

• PrefaceAbbreviationsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Sexton's Obsessive CombinationsFirst CollectionsLife and Death and LoveSexton's TransformationsReligion and TormentPoetry RepeatingAfterwordWorks ConsultedIndex