Screen LibraryThe age of Auden：postwar poetry and the American scene
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Princeton University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Princeton, N.J. |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 258 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780691136790 (hbk.) 0691136793 |
| Index Number: | I712 |
| CLC: | I712.072 |
| Call Number: | I712.072/W319 |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-242) and index. Prologue: Auden in "Atlantis" -- A way of happening: Auden's American presence -- Father of forms: Merrill, Auden, and a fable of influence -- The gay apprentice: Ashbery, Auden, and a portrait of the artist as a young critic -- The old sources: Rich, Auden, and making something happen -- Epilogue: he became his admirers: saying goodbye to Auden. Wasley shows how [W. H.] 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 reading of Jame 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. |