Age of Auden - Postwar Poetry and the American Scene

Zusatztext "The reality of Auden's influence is undeniable, and Wasley's retracing is both nuanced and revealing." ---James Gifford, Year's Work in English Studies Informationen zum Autor Aidan Wasley is associate professor of English at the University of Georgia. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. This book deals with Auden's influence on American poetry. It offers an account of Auden's dramatic impact on the younger American poets, from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Abbreviations ix Preface xiii Prologue: Auden in "Atlantis" 1 Part I Chapter 1: A Way of Happening: ...

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• Authors: Aidan Wasley, Wasley Aidan
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.01.2011
• EAN: 9780691136790
• ISBN: 978-0-691-13679-0
• No. of pages: 280
• Series: Princeton University Press
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > English linguistics / literary studies; USA, English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / 20th Century, Literary studies: poetry & poets, United States of America, USA, Literary studies: from c 1900 -, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets