Title Lyric and liberalism in the age of American empire / Hugh Foley

Edition First edition Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022 ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (256 pages) Series Oxford English Monographs Oxford English monographs. Summary "Lyric and Liberalism in the Age of American Empire considers, in the work of five exemplary poets, a particular tension between the lyric representation of individual consciousness and a sense (individual, but part of a wider collective anxiety) that these representations justify, dignify, or ornament the American state, even when raised to the pitch of dissent. The poets discussed are Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell (taken together), Amiri Baraka, John Ashbery, and Jorie Graham. This book examines how questions about the nature of the individual in liberal thought animate poems, and how poets were driven to ask these questions when confronting the nature of American empire. The book argues that each poet saw a resemblance between their own understanding of what poems do, and the liberal idea of the individual. It shows that each poet was able to make use of techniques associated with making a person visible in a lyric poem, in order to stage a critique of liberalism, and to distinguish the subject of a lyric poem from the liberal subject of rights"--Publisher's description Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from home page (Oxford Academic, viewed on August 24, 2023) Subject Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979 -- Criticism and interpretation Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977 -- Criticism and interpretation Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014 -- Criticism and interpretation Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation Graham, Jorie, 1950- -- Criticism and interpretation SUBJECT Ashbery, John, 1927-2017. fast (OCoLC)fst01427403 Baraka, Amiri, 1934-2014. fast (OCoLC)fst01774906 Bishop, Elizabeth, 1911-1979. fast (OCoLC)fst00034751 Graham, Jorie, 1950- fast (OCoLC)fst00048469 Lowell, Robert, 1917-1977. fast (OCoLC)fst00032123 Subject American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism American poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism Liberalism in literature. American poetry. Liberalism in literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 9780192671271 0192671278 9780191947872 0191947873

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