Hart Crane and Allen Tate : Janus-face modernism / by Langdon Hammer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hammer, Langdon, 1958- author.

Series:

Princeton legacy library.

Princeton Legacy Library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American poetry.

Authorship--Collaboration--History--20th century.

Authorship.

Poets, American--20th century--Biography.

Poets, American.

Modernism (Literature)--United States.

Modernism (Literature).

Crane, Hart, 1899-1932--Friends and associates.

Crane, Hart.

Tate, Allen, 1899-1979--Friends and associates.

Tate, Allen.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (296 pages).

Other Title:

Hart Crane and Allen Tate.

Place of Publication:

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2017.

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Focusing on the vexed friendship between Hart Crane and Allen Tate, this book examines twentieth-century American poetry's progress toward institutional sanction and professional organization, a process in which sexual identities, poetic traditions, and literary occupations were in question and at stake. Langdon Hammer combines biography and formalist analysis to argue that American modernism was a Janus-faced phenomenon, at once emancipatory and elitist, which simultaneously attacked traditional cultural authority and reconstructed it in new forms. Hammer shows how Crane and Tate, working in relation to each other and to T. S. Eliot, created for themselves the competing roles of "genius" and "poet-critic." Crane embraced the self-authorizing powers of the individual talent at the cost of standing outside the emerging consensus of high modernist literary culture, an aesthetic isolation which converged with his social isolation as a gay man. Tate, turning against Crane, linked the modernist defense of tradition to an embattled heterosexual masculinity, while he adapted Eliot's stance to a career sustained by criticism and teaching. Ending his book with a discussion of Robert Lowell's career, Hammer maintains that Lowell's "confessional" poetry recapitulates the conflict enacted by Crane and Tate.Originally published in 1993.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

I. Janus-Faced Modernism

One. Toward the Institute of Literary Autonomy and Tradition

II. Tate: The Right Kind of Modernism

Two. The Realism of The Waste Land

Three. Genius and the Rational Order of Criticism

Four. The Burial of the Confederate Dead

Coda. "Mrs. Tate's" Tombstone

III. Crane: Modernism in Reverse

Five. A Resurrection of Some Kind

Six. Dice of Drowned Men's Bones

Seven. The Floating Singer of The Bridge

Coda. Unanswered Questions

IV. Beyond Modernism

Eight. Robert Lowell's Breakdown

Notes

Works Cited

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 08. Jul 2019)

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780691654393

0691654395

9780691605838

0691605831

OCLC:

1016774281