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Midcentury Quartet

Author : Thomas J. Travisano
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813929187
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (291 download)

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Download or read book Midcentury Quartet written by Thomas J. Travisano and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 1999-12-29 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In a February 1966 letter to her artistic confidant, RobertLowell, Elizabeth Bishop tellingly grouped four midcentury poets: Lowell, RandallJarrell, John Berryman, and herself. For Bishop--always wary of being pigeonholedand therefore reticent about naming her favorite contemporaries--it was a rareexplicit acknowledgment of an informal but enduring artistic circle that has evadedthe notice of literary journalists for more than forty years. Despite the privatenature of their dialogue, the group's members--Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, andBerryman--left a compelling record of their mutual interchange and influence.Drawing on an extensive range of published and archival sources, Thomas Travisanotraces these poets' creation of a surprisingly coherent postmodern aesthetic anddefines its continuing influence on Americanpoetry. The refusal of this "midcentury quartet,"as Travisano calls them, to voice a formalized doctrine, coupled with theirintuitive way of working, has caused critics to miss the coherence of their project.Travisano argues that these poets are not only successors to Pound, Auden, Stevens, and Eliot but postmodern explorers in their own right. In forging their ownaesthetic, characterized here as a postmodern mode of elegy, they encounteredsignificant resistance from their immediate modernist mentors Allen Tate, John CroweRansom, and Marianne Moore. Jarrell, whom othersof the group regarded as a critic of particular genius, was first described as apost-modernist in a 1941 review by Ransom that Travisano cites as the earliest knownuse of the term. In Jarrell's review of Lowell's Lord Weary's Castle six yearslater, he named Lowell a postmodernist and identified traits, among them the use ofpastiche, that are now considered by theorists such as Fredric Jameson asspecifically postmodern. And Bishop's inventiveness allowed her to adapt aself-exploratory mode often, but imprecisely, termed confessional to challengingforms such as the double sonnet, villanelle, andsestina. Each of these poets suffered adevastating loss during childhood and lived through the twentieth-century disastersof the Great Depression, World War II and the Holocaust, and the cold war. Thecontinual tension in their poetry between subjectivity and form, claims Travisano, reflects the plight of the fractured individual in a postmodern world. By arguing sosharply for the importance of this circle, Midcentury Quartet is certain to redrawthe map of postwar American poetry.

Midcentury Suspension

Author : Claire Seiler
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231550944
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

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Download or read book Midcentury Suspension written by Claire Seiler and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did literary artists confront the middle of a century already defined by two global wars and newly faced with a nuclear future? Midcentury Suspension argues that a sense of suspension—a feeling of being between beginnings and endings, recent horrors and opaque horizons—shaped transatlantic literary forms and cultural expression in this singular moment. Rooted in extensive archival research in literary, print, and public cultures of the Anglophone North Atlantic, Claire Seiler’s account of midcentury suspension ranges across key works of the late 1940s and early 1950s by authors such as W. H. Auden, Samuel Beckett, Elizabeth Bishop, Elizabeth Bowen, Ralph Ellison, and Frank O’Hara. Seiler reveals how these writers cultivated modes of suspension that spoke to the felt texture of life at midcentury. Running counter to the tendency to frame midcentury literature in the terms of modernism or of our contemporary, Midcentury Suspension reorients twentieth-century literary study around the epoch’s fraught middle.

Robert Lowell in a New Century

Author : Thomas Austenfeld
Publisher : Camden House
ISBN 13 : 164014028X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (41 download)

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Download or read book Robert Lowell in a New Century written by Thomas Austenfeld and published by Camden House. This book was released on 2019 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New essays providing fresh insights into the great 20th-century American poet Lowell, his writings, and his struggles.

Poetry and the Sense of Panic

Author : Lionel Kelly
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042007208
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Poetry and the Sense of Panic written by Lionel Kelly and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2000 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For all the disciplined artifice of Elizabeth Bishop and John Ashbery, the essays in this collection show that panic plays a crucial role in their work, giving substance to Bishop's claim that an element of mortal panic and fear underlines all art. This collection provides original commentaries on the work of two poets widely regarded as amongst the most significant American poets of the second half of the twentieth century with essays by notable scholars from the United States and Britain known for their special interests in modern poetry including Joanne Feit Diehl, Mark Ford, Edward Larissy, Peter Nicholls, Peter Robinson, Thomas Travisano, Cheryl Walker and Geoff Ward.

Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present

Author : Margaret Greaves
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192693107
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (926 download)

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Download or read book Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present written by Margaret Greaves and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-05-23 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Poetry and astronomy often travel together in the political sphere, from Milton's meeting with Galileo under house arrest to NASA's practice of launching poems into space. Anchored in the post-war period but drawing on a long history of poetry and science, Lyric Poetry and Space Exploration from Einstein to the Present charts the surprising connection between poetry and extra-terrestrial space. In an era defined by the vast scales of globalization, environmental disaster, and space travel, poets bring the small scales of lyric intimacy to bear on cosmic immensity. While outer space might seem the domain of more popular genres, lyric poetry has ancient and enduring associations with cosmic inquiry that have made it central to post-war space culture. As the Cold War played out in space, American institutions and media - from NASA to Star Trek - enlisted poetry to present space exploration as a peaceful mission on behalf of humankind. Meanwhile, poets from across the globe have turned to the cosmos to contest American imperialism, challenging conventional ideas about lyric poetry in the process. Poets including Elizabeth Bishop, Adrienne Rich, Seamus Heaney, Derek Walcott, Agha Shahid Ali, and Tracy K. Smith invoke the extra-terrestrial to interrogate national histories alongside their craft. Dazzled by the aesthetics of astronomy but wary of its imperial uses, poets employ astronomical figures and methods to imagine how we might care for both ourselves and others on a shared planet.

Professing Sincerity

Author : Susan B. Rosenbaum
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 9780813926100
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Professing Sincerity written by Susan B. Rosenbaum and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sincerity--the claim that the voice, figure, and experience of a first-person speaker is that of the author--has dominated both the reading and the writing of Anglo-American poetry since the romantic era. Most critical studies have upheld an opposition between sincerity and the literary marketplace, contributing to the widespread understanding of the lyric poem as a moral refuge from the taint of commercial culture. Guided by the question of why we expect poetry to be sincere, Susan Rosenbaum reveals in Professing Sincerity: Modern Lyric Poetry, Commercial Culture, and the Crisis in Reading that, in fact, sincerity in the modern lyric was in many ways a product of commercial culture. As she demonstrates, poets who made a living from their writing both sold the moral promise that their lyrics were sincere and commented on this conflict in their work. Juxtaposing the poetry of Wordsworth and Frank O'Hara, Charlotte Smith and Sylvia Plath, and Anna Laetitia Barbauld and Elizabeth Bishop, Rosenbaum shows how on the one hand, through textual claims to sincerity poets addressed moral anxieties about the authenticity, autonomy, and transparency of literature written in and for a market. On the other hand, by performing their "private" lives and feelings in public, she argues, poets marketed the self, cultivated celebrity, and advanced professional careers. Not only a moral practice, professing sincerity was also good business. The author focuses on the history of this conflict in both British romantic and American post-1945 poetry. Professing Sincerity will appeal to students and scholars of Anglo-American lyric poetry, of the history of authorship, and of gender studies and commercial culture.

Elizabeth Bishop

Author : Linda Anderson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748665757
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Bishop written by Linda Anderson and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2013-08-20 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Linda Anderson explores Elizabeth Bishop's poetry, from her early days at Vassar College to her last great poems in Geography III and the later uncollected poems. Drawing generously on Bishop's notebooks and letters, the book situates Bishop both in her historical and cultural context and in terms of her own writing process, where the years between beginning a poem and completing it, for which Bishop is legendary, are seen as a necessary part of their composition. The book begins by offering a new reading of Bishop's relationship with Marianne Moore and with modernism. Through her journeys to Europe Bishop, it is also argued, learned a great deal from visual artists and from surrealism. However the book also follows the way Bishop came back to memories of her childhood, developing ideas about narrative, in order to explore time, both the losses it demands and the connections it makes possible. The lines of connections are both those between Bishop and her contemporaries and her context and those she inscribed through her own work, suggesting how her poems incorporate a process of arrival and create new possibilities of meaning

A Quartet of 'Mid Century' Houses

Author : Curated by Joel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781714661596
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book A Quartet of 'Mid Century' Houses written by Curated by Joel and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-08 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I've thought about a little book like this for a long time but it was the rather recent impetus of the Greenwich Historical Society's recognition that brought this book to fruition. After the recognition by the Greenwich Historical Society it was decided to do a review of the first ten, or so, 'new' houses done at the beginning of my career to determine if there was a noticeable change in the approach to house designing. To show the progressive change, I would like to have shown some intermediate houses like the Miller house in 1964; the 'Robinson' house in 1970; and the Garett house in 1972. The Klausner house in 1973 and others, but there wasn't enough material on any that would do justice to them, so I choose the four listed above. After a forty-year practice and an almost twenty-year retirement, many of the houses completed long ago had faded from the architect's memory so, it came as a complete and very unexpected surprise when he was notified, by the Greenwich Historical Society, that one of his early houses, finished in 1959, was selected by the Society as an important example of 'mid-century' architecture and they landmarked the house with a handsome bronze plaque. It's mounted, near the entrance on one of the distinctive features of the design, a fiberglass closet. It's the first recognition of "contemporary" architecture in their 40 years of plaquing distinctive buildings in Greenwich, and rescued the aging house from an uncertain future.Ed Paul

Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co

Author : Suzanne Ferguson
Publisher : Univ. of Tennessee Press
ISBN 13 : 9781572332294
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (322 download)

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Download or read book Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co written by Suzanne Ferguson and published by Univ. of Tennessee Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Jarrell, Bishop, Lowell, & Co.: Middle-Generation Poets in Context Takes on the oft-noted but little explored friendship of three of the most respected poets of the twentieth century. Editor Suzanne Ferguson collects eighteen essays that explore the literary, personal, and political affiliations of Randall Jarrell, Elizabeth Bishop, and Robert Lowell, influential literary figures who flourished in the periods between modernism and postmodernism. Essay in the first section of the book directly compare the subjects, while sections on each of the poets follow. The contributors unpack received wisdom on the poets, revising and updating our conceptions. The multiple viewpoints reflect on one another, shedding provocative light on the group as a whole, and revealing the ways the study of poets in their historical context helps make them not only accessible but also relevant to today's reader. The Contributors: Edward Hirsch, Steven Gould Axelrod, Jeredith Merrin, Thomas Travisano, Diederik Oostdijk, Richard Flynn, Nelson Hathcock, Florian Hild, Stephen Burt, James McCorkle, Ross Leckie, Meg Schoerke, Lurel Kornhiser, Francesco Rognoni, Christian Sisack, Ernest J. Smith, and Elise Partridge. The Editor: Suzanne Ferguson is Samuel B. and Virginia C. Knight Professor of Humanities, Emerita, at Case Western Reserve University. She is author of The Poetry of Randall Jarrell, editor of Critical Essays on Randall Jarrell, and coeditor of Literature and the Visual Arts in Contemporary Society. Her articles have appeared in Georgia Review, Modern Fiction Studies, Word and Image, and other journals.

The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry

Author : Christopher Beach
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521891493
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry written by Christopher Beach and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-10-23 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Cambridge Introduction to Twentieth-Century American Poetry is designed to give readers a brief but thorough introduction to the various movements, schools, and groups of American poets in the twentieth century. It will help readers to understand and analyze modern and contemporary poems. The first part of the book deals with the transition from the nineteenth-century lyric to the modernist poem, focussing on the work of major modernists such as Robert Frost, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Wallace Stevens, Marianne Moore, and W. C. Williams. In the second half of the book, the focus is on groups such as the poets of the Harlem Renaissance, the New Critics, the Confessionals, and the Beats. In each chapter, discussions of the most important poems are placed in the larger context of literary, cultural, and social history.

Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell

Author : D. Furr
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230109918
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Recorded Poetry and Poetic Reception from Edna Millay to the Circle of Robert Lowell written by D. Furr and published by Springer. This book was released on 2010-07-19 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through an analysis of a wide range of commercial and amateur recordings, this book describes how and why poetry was recorded in the U.S., from the 1930's through the mid-century performances of poets such as Dylan Thomas and Anne Sexton.

Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century

Author : Eric L. Haralson
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 131776322X
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (177 download)

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Book Synopsis Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century by : Eric L. Haralson

Download or read book Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century written by Eric L. Haralson and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-01-21 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Encyclopedia of American Poetry: The Twentieth Century contains over 400 entries that treat a broad range of individual poets and poems, along with many articles devoted to topics, schools, or periods of American verse in the century. Entries fall into three main categories: poet entries, which provide biographical and cultural contexts for the author's career; entries on individual works, which offer closer explication of the most resonant poems in the 20th-century canon; and topical entries, which offer analyses of a given period of literary production, school, thematically constructed category, or other verse tradition that historically has been in dialogue with the poetry of the United States.

Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil

Author : Bethany Hicok
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
ISBN 13 : 0813938554
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (139 download)

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Download or read book Elizabeth Bishop's Brazil written by Bethany Hicok and published by University of Virginia Press. This book was released on 2016-04-29 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When the American poet Elizabeth Bishop arrived in Brazil in 1951 at the age of forty, she had not planned to stay, but her love affair with the Brazilian aristocrat Lota de Macedo Soares and with the country itself set her on another course, and Brazil became her home for nearly two decades. In this groundbreaking new study, Bethany Hicok offers Bishop’s readers the most comprehensive study to date on the transformative impact of Brazil on the poet’s life and art. Based on extensive archival research and travel, Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil argues that the whole shape of Bishop’s writing career shifted in response to Brazil, taking on historical, political, linguistic, and cultural dimensions that would have been inconceivable without her immersion in this vibrant South American culture. Hicok reveals the mid-century Brazil that Bishop encountered--its extremes of wealth and poverty, its spectacular topography, its language, literature, and people--and examines the Brazilian class structures that placed Bishop and Macedo Soares at the center of the country’s political and cultural power brokers. We watch Bishop develop a political poetry of engagement against the backdrop of America’s Cold War policies and Brazil’s political revolutions. Hicok also offers the first comprehensive evaluation of Bishop’s translations of Brazilian writers and their influence on her own work. Drawing on archival sources that include Bishop’s unpublished travel writings and providing provocative new readings of the poetry, Elizabeth Bishop’s Brazil is a long-overdue exploration of a pivotal phase in this great poet’s life and work.

A Study Guide for Randall Jarrell's "The Woman at the Washington Zoo"

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Author : Gale, Cengage Learning
Publisher : Gale, Cengage Learning
ISBN 13 : 1535845376
Total Pages : 17 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (358 download)

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Download or read book A Study Guide for Randall Jarrell's "The Woman at the Washington Zoo" written by Gale, Cengage Learning and published by Gale, Cengage Learning . This book was released on with total page 17 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Study Guide for Randall Jarrell's "The Woman at the Washington Zoo", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Poetry for Students. This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; historical context; suggestions for further reading; and much more. For any literature project, trust Poetry for Studentsfor all of your research needs.

A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke

Author : William Barillas
Publisher : Ohio University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804041164
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book A Field Guide to the Poetry of Theodore Roethke written by William Barillas and published by Ohio University Press. This book was released on 2020-12-29 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A constellation of essays that reanimates the work of this pivotal twentieth-century American poet for a new century. This volume is the first to reconsider Roethke’s work in terms of the expanded critical approaches to literature that have emerged since his death in 1963. Editor William Barillas and over forty contributors, including highly respected literary scholars, critics, and writers such as Peter Balakian, Camille Paglia, Jay Parini, and David Wojahn, collectively make a case for Roethke’s poetry as a complete, unified, and evolving body of work. The accessible essays employ a number of approaches, including formalism, ecocriticism, reader-response, and feminist critique to explicate the poetics, themes, and the biographical, historical, cultural, and literary contexts of Roethke’s work.

Letter Writing Among Poets

Author : Jonathan Ellis
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
ISBN 13 : 0748681345
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (486 download)

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Download or read book Letter Writing Among Poets written by Jonathan Ellis and published by Edinburgh University Press. This book was released on 2015-01-13 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fifteen enlightening chapters by leading international biographers, critics and poets examine letter writing among poets in the last two hundred years. They range from Coleridge, Wordsworth, Keats and Shelley in the nineteenth-century to Eliot, Yeats, Bis

The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry

Author : Peter Howarth
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139502328
Total Pages : 277 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Introduction to Modernist Poetry written by Peter Howarth and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2011-11-10 with total page 277 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Modernist poems are some of the twentieth-century's major cultural achievements, but they are also hard work to read. This wide-ranging introduction takes readers through modernism's most famous poems and some of its forgotten highlights to show why modernists thought difficulty and disorientation essential for poetry in the modern world. In-depth chapters on Pound, Eliot, Yeats and the American modernists outline how formal experiments take on the new world of mass media, democracies, total war and changing religious belief. Chapters on the avant-gardes and later modernism examine how their styles shift as they try to re-make the community of readers. Howarth explains in a clear and enjoyable way how to approach the forms, politics and cultural strategies of modernist poetry in English.