The Age of Auden : : Postwar Poetry and the American Scene / / Aidan Wasley.
W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a b...
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Wasley, Aidan, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Age of Auden : Postwar Poetry and the American Scene / Aidan Wasley. Course Book Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010] ©2011 1 online resource (280 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Content -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Prologue. Auden in "Atlantis" -- Part I -- 1. A Way of Happening -- Part II -- 2. Father of Forms -- 3. The Gay Apprentice -- 4 The Old Sources -- Epilogue. He Became His Admirers: -- Notes -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it. Issued also in print. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2021) American poetry History and criticism 20th century. American poetry 20th century History and criticism. Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) History 20th century. LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry. bisacsh Adrienne Rich. America. American poetic tradition. American poetry. American poets. Derek Walcott. Irving Feldman. James Merrill. James Schuyler. John Ashbery. John Hollander. Louis Simpson. Richard Howard. The Changing Light at Sandover. W. H. Auden. emigrant. emigration. modernism. post-war poetry. women poets. Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 9783110442502 print 9780691136790 https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836352?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400836352 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400836352.jpg |
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