Research Catalog

Title

The art of the real : poetry in England and America since 1939 / Eric Homberger.

Author

Homberger, Eric.

Publication

London : Dent ; Totowa, N.J. : Rowman and Littlefield, 1977.

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

x, 246 pages; 25 cm

Series Statement

[Everyman's university library]

Uniform Title

Everyman's university library

Subject

• 1900-1999
• Geschichte 1939-1976
• English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• American poetry
• English poetry
• Intellectual life
• Englisch
• Lyrik
• English-speaking countries > Intellectual life > 20th century
• English-speaking countries
• USA
• Englisch
• USA

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Note

• Includes index.

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 231-239.

Contents

The 1940s: MacNeice and the art of the real; his dilemma in Autumn Journal; MacNeice as a war casualty; Auden departs for New york, and rejects his political poetry; the 'new' Auen and New Year Letter; Randall Jarrell and the end of the Audenesque; literature and society during the war; and the new Kulturbolschewismus; Alun Lewis and the crisis of creativity during wartime; Roy Fuller and the decline of political commitment in English poetry. -- The 1950s: The 'collapse' of the poetry market after the war, and the reaction against modernism; literary intellectuals in the new prosperity; Larkin, the saddest heart in the supermarket; Donald Davie on the road to Palo Alto; a cento from the new age; Richard Wilbur and some versions of formalism (Donald Hall, Anthony Thwaite); the movement meets its anti-type in Theodore Roethke: two poets who tell us what it meant to dissent from the reigning orthodoxies; William Carlos Williams takes the measure of American life in Paterson; but Charles Olson wasn't impressed; Allen Ginsberg opens a Pandora's box with an elegy for the bohemia of the 1940s and a prayer for the restless spirit of his mother; three ex-formalists take us into the 1960s: W.D. Snodgrass, Robert Lowell and Sylvia Plath. -- The 1960s and 1970s: The hegemony of the chatty-vernacular, anti-poetic, corn-porn typical poem of the 1960s and 1970s masks the stealthy emergence of the long poem as the common poetic medium of the day; a salon des refusés of untypical long poems by Charles Reznikoff, Richard Emil Braun and Basil Bunting, suggests something of the capacious heritage of Ezra Pound; an angry primitivism arrives, led by Gary Snyder; Galway Kinnell from alienation to primitivism; the loose, baggy monsters of John Berryman and Robert Lowell; the final contention between Geoffrey Hill and Ted Hughes.

ISBN

• 0874719380
• 9780874719383
• 046010084X
• 9780460100847
• 0460110845
• 9780460110846

LCCN

77360615

OCLC

• ocm02999430
• 2999430
• SCSB-14508432

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library