The Age of Auden : Postwar Poetry and the American Scene.

By: Wasley, AidanMaterial type: TextTextPublisher: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2010Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (205 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781400836352Subject(s): American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism | Auden, W. H. -- (Wystan Hugh), -- 1907-1973 -- Influence | Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 20th centuryGenre/Form: Electronic books.Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Age of Auden : Postwar Poetry and the American SceneDDC classification: 813.5409 LOC classification: PS323.5 -- .W37 2010ebOnline resources: Click to View
Contents:
Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Prologue: Auden in "Atlantis" -- Part I -- 1 - A Way of Happening: Auden's American Presence -- Part II -- 2 - Father of Forms: Merrill, Auden, and a Fable of Influence -- 3 - The Gay Apprentice: Ashbery, Auden, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Critic -- 4 - The Old Sources: Rich, Auden, and Making Something Happen -- Epilogue: He Became His Admirers: Saying Goodbye to Auden -- Notes -- Index.
Summary: W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how 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 readings of James 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.
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Intro -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication Page -- Contents -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Prologue: Auden in "Atlantis" -- Part I -- 1 - A Way of Happening: Auden's American Presence -- Part II -- 2 - Father of Forms: Merrill, Auden, and a Fable of Influence -- 3 - The Gay Apprentice: Ashbery, Auden, and a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Critic -- 4 - The Old Sources: Rich, Auden, and Making Something Happen -- Epilogue: He Became His Admirers: Saying Goodbye to Auden -- Notes -- Index.

W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how 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 readings of James 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.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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