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Author O'Neill, Michael

Title The All-Sustaining Air : Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900
Published Oxford : OUP Oxford, 2007

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents Introduction : 'original response' -- 'The all-sustaining air' : variations on a romantic metaphor -- 'A vision of reality' : mid-to-late Yeats -- 'Dialectic ways' : T.S. Eliot and counter-romanticism -- 'The guts of the living' : Auden and Spender in the 1930s -- 'The death of Satan' : Stevens's 'Esthétique du mal', evil, and the romantic imagination -- 'Shining in modest glory' : post-romantic strains in Kavanagh, Heaney, Mahon, Carson, and others -- 'Just another twist in the plot' : Paul Muldoon's 'Madoc : a mystery' -- Deep shocks of recognition and 'gutted' romanticism : Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher
Summary Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900. Allowing for and celebrating the multiple, even fractured nature of Romantic legacies, Michael O'Neill focuses on the creative impact of Romantic poetry on twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry. Individual chapters embrace numerous authors and texts, and span differentcultures; the intention is not the forlorn hope of completeness, but the wish to open up possibilities and intersections, and there
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
Romanticism -- Great Britain -- History -- 20th century
Romanticism -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American poetry
English poetry
English poetry -- Irish authors
Romanticism
Great Britain
United States
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780191538421
0191538426
9780199299287
0199299285