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At home in time : forms of neo-Augustanism in modern English poetry / Patrick Deane.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Deane, Patrick.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- English literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- English literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 256 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Montreal : McGill-Queens University Press, 1994.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The presence of these values, Deane contends, is not a curiosity but part of a vital and discernible tradition of modern neo-Augustanism that has been previously overlooked. By tracing these writers' common interest in Horace, John Dryden, and Samuel Johnson, he uncovers important links between seemingly diverse modern poets. Deane challenges the whole interpretation of literary modernism, which has traditionally linked the modern poets to the Romantics and seen both as anti-Augustan. Deane concludes that these modern poets share a ready and pragmatic acceptance of linear time, within which all acts of artistic and social creativity must take place - a crucial factor in both the form and substance of their writings. That art, language, and society are inseparable under such conditions was a bracing thought for the young Auden, but a potentially disturbing one for more recent poets.
- Contents:
- Front Matter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Forms of Neoclassicism: Modern Continuities and Discontinuities
- Eliot's Classicism, Pound's Symbolism, and the Drafts of The Waste Land
- The Reader in W.H. Auden's "New Year Letter"
- Louis MacNeice and the Lesson of Autumn Journal
- A.D. Hope: A Poetics and Poetry of "Counter-Revolution"
- Donald Davie's Quarrel with Modernism in Six Epistles to Eva Hesse
- Conclusion: World Enough, and Time: Recent Negotiations between Poetry and History
- Notes
- Works Cited
- Index
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-7735-6484-5
- OCLC:
- 929120976
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