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Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
The Essex Review
Author: The Essex Review
Author: Edward Arthur FitchPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Essex (England)
Languages : en
Pages : 570
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Essex Review
Author: Robert Duncan
Author: Robert DuncanPublisher: University of California Press
ISBN: 0520324862
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 924
Book Description
Profoundly original yet insistent on the derivative quality of his work, transgressive yet affirmative of tradition, Robert Duncan (1919-1988) was a generative force among American poets, and his poetry and poetics establish him as a major figure in mid- and late- 20th-century American letters. This second volume of Robert Duncan’s collected poetry and plays presents authoritative annotated texts of both collected and uncollected work from his middle and late writing years (1958-1988), with commentaries on each of the five books from this period: The Opening of the Field, Roots and Branches, Bending the Bow, and the two volumes of Ground Work. The biographical and critical introduction discusses Duncan as a late Romantic and postmodern American writer; his formulation of a homosexual poetics; his development of the serial poem; the notation and centrality of sound as organizing principle; his relations with such fellow poets as Robin Blaser, Charles Olson, and Jack Spicer; his indebtedness to Alfred North Whitehead; and his collaborations with the painter Jess Collins, his lifelong partner. Texts include his anti-war poems of the 1960s and 70s, his homages to Dante and other canonical poets, and his translations from the French of Gérard de Nerval, as well as the complete Structure of Rime and Passages series.
Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer'
Author: Alex LatterPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472575830
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of 'Betjeman's England', the young writers associated with it were catalysed by the example of Donald Allen's The New American Poetry as they sought to establish a revitalised modernist poetics. Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer gives the first full account of the extraordinary history of this publication, bringing to light extensive new archival material to establish an authoritative contextualisation of its operation and its relationship with post-war British poetry. This material provides compelling new insights into the work of the Intelligencer poets themselves and, more broadly, the continued presence of an international poetic modernism as a vital force in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945-2010
Author: Eric FalciPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107029635
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 291
Book Description
This book provides an overview of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century.
Internal Resistances
Author: Donald WeslingPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520318137
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1985.
Door to the River
Author: Aram SaroyanPublisher: Black Sparrow Books
ISBN: 1567923968
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
So begins Aram Saroyan's essay, Occupation: Writer, about his vocation, the sixties generation, and emerging from the shadow of his father, the American novelist and playwright, William Saroyan. In this essay and others, Saroyan's subject is America's cultural inheritance, not only the development of the American literary tradition, with additional forays into art and music, but also America's political landscape and the responsibilities attendant upon independent writers to speak out against injustice and the abuse of power. From astute assessments and appreciations of artists and writers such as Charles Mingus, Andy Warhol, and Joan Didion to op-ed pieces written in the wake of 9/11, Saroyan's essays are engaging and make for good companionship, as Jack Kerouac insisted good books must do.
American Poetry and Culture, 1945-1980
Author: Robert Von HallbergPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674030121
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 292
Book Description
Challenging the common perception of poets as standing apart from the mainstream of American culture, Robert von Hallberg gives us a fresh and unpredictable assessment of the poetry that has come directly out of the American experience since 1945. Who reads contemporary American poetry? More people than were reading new poetry in the 1920s, von Hallberg shows. How do poets respond to the public preoccupations of their readers? Often with fascination. Von Hallberg put the poems of Robert Creeley and John Ashbery together with the postwar outburst of systems analysis. The 1950s tourist poems of John Hollander, Adrienne Rich, W. S. Merwin, and James Merrill are treated as the cultural side of America's postwar rise to global political power There are chapters on the political poems of the 1950s and 1960s, and on Robert Lowell's sympathy for the imperialism of his liberal contemporaries. Poems of the 1970s on pop culture, especially Edward Dorn's Slinger, and some from the suburbs of the 1980s, are shown to reflect a curious peace between the literary and the mass cultures.
The Collected Letters of Charles Olson and J.H. Prynne
Author: Ryan DobranPublisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358322
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Front Cover -- Recencies Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: 1961 -- Chapter 2: 1962 -- Chapter 3: 1963 -- Chapter 4: 1964 -- Chapter 5: 1965 -- Chapter 6: 1966 -- Chapter 7: 1967-1970 -- Bibliography -- Index