| Description |
1 online resource (201 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Lost words: Donne, Marvell and Ashberyan metaphor; Chapter Two 'The music of all present': Ashberyan description and the presence of John Clare; Chapter Three 'Always articulating these preludes': landscape, Wordsworth, 'A Wave' and after; Chapter Four 'These decibels': Eliot, Ashbery and allusion; Chapter Five The first and most important influence: Ashbery and Auden; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
A study of how we should read one of America's most important poetsBen Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. His study focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T.S. Eliot and W.H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the hi |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Themes, motives
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 -- Knowledge -- English poetry
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Ashbery, John, 1927-2017 |
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POETRY -- American -- General.
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LITERARY CRITICISM / American / General
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Themes, motives
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English poetry
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780748644766 |
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0748644768 |
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9780748649228 |
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0748649220 |
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