The Savage God: A Study of Suicide by Al Alvarez

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The Savage God: A Study of Suicide

by Al Alvarez

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ridge83 | Feb 21, 2009 |

This is a poet's take on suicide as literature and literary theory. It is suicide in literature and by poets, and why suicide has been appealing to poets (especially to the author's friend Sylvia Plath). (

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1971

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New York Times bestseller (General, 1972)

Epigraph

After us the Savage God - W.B. Yeats

Dedication

To Anne

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When I was at school there was an unusually sweet-tempered rather disorganized physics master who was continually talking, in a joky way, about suicide.

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Erwin Stengel (New Society)

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Original publication date	1971
Awards and honors	New York Times bestseller (General, 1972)
Epigraph	After us the Savage God - W.B. Yeats
Dedication	To Anne
First words	When I was at school there was an unusually sweet-tempered rather disorganized physics master who was continually talking, in a joky way, about suicide.
Last words	(Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)
Blurbers	Erwin Stengel (New Society)