John Ashbery and English poetry / by Ben Hickman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hickman, Ben.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ashbery, John, 1927---Themes, motives.

Ashbery, John.

Ashbery, John, 1927---Knowledge--English poetry.

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

English poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (201 p.)

Place of Publication:

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2012.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

Summary:

A study of how we should read one of America's most important poetsBen Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. His study focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the hi

Contents:

Cover; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Introduction; Chapter One Lost words: Donne, Marvell and Ashberyan metaphor; Chapter Two 'The music of all present': Ashberyan description and the presence of John Clare; Chapter Three 'Always articulating these preludes': landscape, Wordsworth, 'A Wave' and after; Chapter Four 'These decibels': Eliot, Ashbery and allusion; Chapter Five The first and most important influence: Ashbery and Auden; Bibliography; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-7486-4476-8

OCLC:

795695181