"Why should men's heads ache?" Yeats and American modernism / Edna Longley -- "A package deal": The descent of modernism / Stan Smith -- Writing "Without roots": Auden, Eliot, and post-national poetry / Nicholas Jenkins -- "A whole climate of opinion": Auden's influence on Bishop / Bonnie Costello -- The American poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill / Langdon Hammer -- The White Room in the New York schoolhouse / Tony Lopez -- "Rebellion that honors the liturgies": Robert Lowell and Michael Hoffman / Stephen Burt -- Authority, marginality, England, and Ireland in the work of Susan Howe / Alan Golding -- "The circulation of small largeness": Mark Ford and John Ashbery / Helen Vendler
Summary
Something We Have That They Don't presents a variety of essays on the relationship between British and American poetry since 1925. The essays collected here all explore some aspect of the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy years
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-214) and index