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Something we have that they don't : British & American poetic relations since 1925

Title
Something we have that they don't : British & American poetic relations since 1925 / edited by Steve Clark & Mark Ford.
Publication
Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.

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Additional Authors
  • Clark, S. H. (Steven H.), 1957-
  • Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-
Description
225 pages; 25 cm
Summary
  • "Something We Have That They Don't presents a variety of essays that explore the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy-five years. Since the dawn of Modernism poets on either side of the Atlantic have frequently inspired each other's developments, from Frost's galvanizing advice to Edward Thomas to rearrange his prose to verse, to Eliot's and Auden's enormous influence on the poetry of their adopted nations, from the impact of Charles Olson on other Black Mountain poets on J.H. Prynne and the Cambridge School, to the widespread influence of Frank O'Hara and Robert Lowell on a diverse range of contemporary British poets. Clark and Ford's study aims to chart some of the currents of these ever-shifting relations.
  • Poets discussed in these essays include John Ashbery, W.H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, T.S. Eliot, Mark Ford, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Lee Harwood, Geoffrey Hill, Michael Hofman, Susan Howe, Robert Lowell, and W.B. Yeats." "These essays consider the ways in which even seemingly very "unprimative" poetries can be seen as reflecting and engaging with issues of national sovereignty and self-interest, and in the process they pose a series of fascinating questions about the national narratives that currently dominate definitions of the British and American poetic traditions."--Jacket.
Subject
  • 1900-1999
  • English poetry > American influences
  • English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • American poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
  • Comparative literature > English and American
  • Comparative literature > American and English
  • American poetry > English influences
  • American poetry
  • English poetry
  • International relations
  • Literaturbeziehungen
  • Lyrik
  • Beïnvloeding
  • Dichters
  • Engels
  • Amerikaans
  • Vergelijkende literatuurwetenschap
  • Great Britain > Relations > United States
  • United States > Relations > Great Britain
  • Great Britain
  • United States
  • USA
  • Englisch
Genre/Form
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
"Why should men's heads ache?" Yeats and American modernism / Edna Longley -- "A package deal": The descent of modernism / Stan Smith -- Writing "Without roots": Auden, Eliot, and post-national poetry / Nicholas Jenkins -- "A whole climate of opinion": Auden's influence on Bishop / Bonnie Costello -- The American poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill / Langdon Hammer -- The White Room in the New York schoolhouse / Tony Lopez -- "Rebellion that honors the liturgies": Robert Lowell and Michael Hoffman / Stephen Burt -- Authority, marginality, England, and Ireland in the work of Susan Howe / Alan Golding -- "The circulation of small largeness": Mark Ford and John Ashbery / Helen Vendler.
ISBN
  • 0877458812
  • 9780877458814
LCCN
2003068652
OCLC
  • ocm53840107
  • 53840107
  • SCSB-1331784
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library