2010, ISBN: 9780691136790

Princeton. 2010. December 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691136790. 258 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Poetry . FROM THE PU… More...

Princeton. 2010. December 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691136790. 258 pages. hardcover. . keywords: Literature Poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - HOW W. H. AUDEN CHANGED THE COURSE OF POSTWAR AMERICAN POETRY. W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work - it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets - from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath - the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new ‘way of happening.' But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it. ‘This festive literary history rereads postwar American poetry as a party crowded into W. H. Auden's New York apartment. Poems and personalities, politics, ethics, and sexuality, the nature of tradition and the problem of national identity, are under discussion. There are acolytes on the guest list, but selfdeclared enemies and party-crashers too. . And while we see how much Auden mattered to American poetry, we see too how much America mattered to Auden's ideas about culture and poetry.' - Langdon Hammer, Yale University inventory #37823 ISBN: 9780691136790., 0<

2010, ISBN: 9780691136790

Princeton. 2010. December 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691136790. 258 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Poetry . FROM THE PUBL… More...

Princeton. 2010. December 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691136790. 258 pages. hardcover. keywords: Literature Poetry . FROM THE PUBLISHER - HOW W. H. AUDEN CHANGED THE COURSE OF POSTWAR AMERICAN POETRY. W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work - it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets - from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath - the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new ‘way of happening.' But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it. ‘This festive literary history rereads postwar American poetry as a party crowded into W. H. Auden's New York apartment. Poems and personalities, politics, ethics, and sexuality, the nature of tradition and the problem of national identity, are under discussion. There are acolytes on the guest list, but selfdeclared enemies and party-crashers too. And while we see how much Auden mattered to American poetry, we see too how much America mattered to Auden's ideas about culture and poetry.' - Langdon Hammer, Yale University inventory #37823 ISBN: 9780691136790., 0<

2010, ISBN: 9780691136790

Princeton. 2010. December 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691136790. 258 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - HOW W. H. AUDEN CHANGE… More...

Princeton. 2010. December 2010. Princeton University Press. 1st American Edition. Very Good in Dustjacket. 9780691136790. 258 pages. hardcover. FROM THE PUBLISHER - HOW W. H. AUDEN CHANGED THE COURSE OF POSTWAR AMERICAN POETRY. W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work—it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets—from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath—the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new ‘way of happening.' But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it. ‘This festive literary history rereads postwar American poetry as a party crowded into W. H. Auden's New York apartment. Poems and personalities, politics, ethics, and sexuality, the nature of tradition and the problem of national identity, are under discussion. There are acolytes on the guest list, but selfdeclared enemies and party-crashers too. And while we see how much Auden mattered to American poetry, we see too how much America mattered to Auden's ideas about culture and poetry.' —Langdon Hammer, Yale University inventory #37823 ISBN: 9780691136790., 0<