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

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

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Hazzard, Oli, 1986-
Imprint:	Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Description:	209 pages ; 23 cm
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford English monographs Oxford English monographs.
Subject:	Ashbery, John, -- 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation. Ashbery, John, -- 1927-2017. National characteristics in literature. National characteristics in literature. Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11682823

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ISBN:	0198822014 9780198822011
Notes:	Includes bibliographic references (pages 197-204) and index.
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.

Table of Contents:

Epigraph
Introduction
1. 'The barbarous wastes': Ashbery and W. H. Auden
2. 'All things as they might be': Ashbery and F. T. Prince
3. 'Trying to have it both ways': Ashbery and Lee Harwood
4. 'We are where we exchanged / positions': Ashbery and Mark Ford
Works Cited
Index