Something we have that they don't : British & American poetic relations since 1925 /

Something We Have That They Don't presents a variety of essays on the relationship between British and American poetry since 1925. The essays collected here all explore some aspect of the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy years.

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Clark, S. H. (Steven H.), 1957-, Ford, Mark, 1962 June 24-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, ©2004.
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Table of Contents:
  • "Why should men's heads ache?" Yeats and American modernism / Edna Longley
  • "A package deal": The descent of modernism / Stan Smith
  • Writing "Without roots": Auden, Eliot, and post-national poetry / Nicholas Jenkins
  • "A whole climate of opinion": Auden's influence on Bishop / Bonnie Costello
  • The American poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill / Langdon Hammer
  • The White Room in the New York schoolhouse / Tony Lopez
  • "Rebellion that honors the liturgies": Robert Lowell and Michael Hoffman / Stephen Burt
  • Authority, marginality, England, and Ireland in the work of Susan Howe / Alan Golding
  • "The circulation of small largeness": Mark Ford and John Ashbery / Helen Vendler.