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Author:

Hazzard, Oli, 1986- author.

Title:

John Ashbery and Anglo-American exchange : the minor eras / Oli Hazzard.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

209 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Ashbery, John,--1927-2017--Criticism and interpretation.
Literature and transnationalism.
National characteristics in literature.
English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
American poetry--English influences.
Ashbery, John,--1927-2017.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-204) and index.

Contents:

The barbarous wastes : Ashbery and W.H. Auden -- All things as they might be : Ashbery and F.T. Prince -- Trying to have it both ways : Ashbery and Lee Harwood -- We are where we exchanged/positions : Ashbery and Mark Ford.

Summary:

In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity and intercultural poetic exchange, by reading crucial episodes in Ashbery's oeuvre in the context of an 'other tradition' of modern English poets he himself has defined. This line runs from the editor of Ashbery's recent Collected Poems, Mark Ford, through Lee Harwood in the late 1960s, F.T. Prince in the 1950s, to 'chronologically the first and therefore most important influence' on his own work, W.H. Auden.

Series:

Oxford English monographs

ISBN:

0198822014
9780198822011

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1020863664

LCCN:

2017964287

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)