Description |
x, 298 pages ; 24 cm |
Series |
Cambridge studies in American literature and culture |
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Cambridge studies in American literature and culture.
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Contents |
Introduction "Unless there is/a new mind there cannot be a new/line": the modernist inheritance -- "Thinkers without final thoughts": the continuity between Stevens and Ashbery -- "We must, we must be moving on": Ashbery's divergence from Stevens and modernism -- "Piercing glances into the life of things": the continuity between Moore and Bishop -- "Resolved, dissolved ... in that watery, dazzling dialectic": Bishop's divergence from Moore and modernism -- "A small (or large) machine made of words': the continuity between Williams and Creeley -- "Let/go, let go of it": Creeley's divergence from Williams and modernism -- "Those who love illusion/and know it": the continuity between Auden and Merrill -- "I knew//the life was friction in disguise": Merrill's divergence from Auden and modernism -- Conclusion "The possibility of free declamation anchored/to a dull refrain": the postmodernist estate |
Analysis |
Poetry in English American writers, 1945- - Critical studies |
Notes |
Includes index |
Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 268-292 |
Subject |
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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Modernism (Literature)
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Modernism (Literature) -- United States.
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LC no. |
86033452 |
ISBN |
0521332834 |
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