The all-sustaining air : romantic legacies and renewals in British, American, and Irish poetry since 1900 / Michael O'Neill.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

O'Neill, Michael, 1953-2018.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

English poetry.

English poetry--Irish authors--History and criticism.

American poetry--20th century--History and criticism.

American poetry.

Romanticism--Great Britain--History--20th century.

Romanticism.

Romanticism--United States--History--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (221 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900. Allowing for and celebrating the multiple, even fractured nature of Romantic legacies, Michael O'Neill focuses on the creative impact of Romantic poetry on twentieth- and twenty-first century poetry. Individual chapters embrace numerous authors and texts, and span differentcultures; the intention is not the forlorn hope of completeness, but the wish to open up possibilities and intersections, and there

Contents:

Introduction : 'original response'

'The all-sustaining air' : variations on a romantic metaphor

'A vision of reality' : mid-to-late Yeats

'Dialectic ways' : T.S. Eliot and counter-romanticism

'The guts of the living' : Auden and Spender in the 1930s

'The death of Satan' : Stevens's 'Esthetique du mal', evil, and the romantic imagination

'Shining in modest glory' : post-romantic strains in Kavanagh, Heaney, Mahon, Carson, and others

'Just another twist in the plot' : Paul Muldoon's 'Madoc : a mystery'

Deep shocks of recognition and 'gutted' romanticism : Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [192]-202) and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-965305-4

0-19-153842-6

9786611155315

1-281-15531-4

1-4356-2372-X

OCLC:

271578848