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1 online resource |
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Oxford English monographs |
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Oxford English monographs.
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| Contents |
Cover; John Ashbery and Anglo-American Exchange: The Minor Eras; Copyright; Dedication; Acknowledgements; Contents; Introduction; 1: 'the barbarous wastes'; 2: 'all things as they might be'; 3: 'trying to have it both ways'; 4: 'we are where we exchanged / positions'; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
In 1966, John Ashbery wrote: 'The English language is constantly trying to stave off invasion by the American language; it lives in a state of alert which is reflected to some degree in English poetry.' This book shows how the work of a major post-war American poet has been centrally concerned with questions of national identity and intercultural poetic exchange, by reading crucial episodes in Ashbery's oeuvre in the context of an 'other tradition' of modern English poets he himself has defined. This line runs from the editor of Ashbery's recent Collected Poems, Mark Ford, through Lee Harwood in the late 1960s, F.T. Prince in the 1950s, to 'chronologically the first and therefore most important influence' on his own work, W.H. Auden |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Criticism and interpretation
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| SUBJECT |
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 fast |
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English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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Literature and transnationalism.
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American poetry -- English influences
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LITERARY CRITICISM -- Poetry.
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American poetry
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American poetry -- English influences
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English poetry
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Literature and transnationalism
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780192555083 |
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0192555081 |
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9780191861093 |
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019186109X |
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