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Author Wasley, Aidan

Title The Age of Auden : Postwar Poetry and the American Scene
Published Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (281 pages)
Contents Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of 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 Portraitof the Artist as a Young Critic; 4 : The Oold Ssources: Rich, Auden, and Making Something Happen; Epilogue: He Became His Admirers: Saying Goodbyeto 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."
Analysis Adrienne Rich
America
American poetic tradition
American poetry
American poets
Derek Walcott
Irving Feldman
James Merrill
James Schuyler
John Ashbery
John Hollander
Louis Simpson
Richard Howard
The Changing Light at Sandover
W. H. Auden
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Influence
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973 -- Influence
Auden, W. H. (Wystan Hugh), 1907-1973
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) -- History -- 20th century
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American poetry
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Genre/Form Electronic books
Form Electronic book
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
ISBN 9781400836352
1400836352
1282936441
9781282936447
9780691136790
0691136793