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W. H. Auden's emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and work--it changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Auden's midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poets--from Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plath--the book offers a new history of postwar American poetry. For Auden, facing private crisis and global catastrophe, moving to the United States became, in the famous words of his first American poem, a new "way of happening." But his redefinition of his work had a significance that was felt far beyond the pages of his own books. Aidan Wasley shows how Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new readings of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration of a novel claim: In order to understand modern American poetry, we need to understand Auden's central place within it.

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) --- American poetry --- History --- History and criticism. --- Auden, W. H. --- Influence. --- Oden, U., --- Auden, Wystan Hugh, --- Adrienne Rich. --- America. --- American poetic tradition. --- American poetry. --- American poets. --- Derek Walcott. --- Irving Feldman. --- James Merrill. --- James Schuyler. --- John Ashbery. --- John Hollander. --- Louis Simpson. --- Richard Howard. --- The Changing Light at Sandover. --- W. H. Auden. --- emigrant. --- emigration. --- modernism. --- post-war poetry. --- women poets.

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"Stand in the Trench, Achilles examines the range of classical receptions in British poetry of the First World War. Elizabeth Vandiver considers poets from a wide social spectrum and discusses the ways in which they refigured classical literature. Vandiver demonstrates that classics and its previous appropriations in English literature provided a rich source of images, tropes, and even verbal expressions for writers of different backgrounds, different political positions, and different viewpoints on the war."--Jacket.

English poetry --- World War, 1914-1918 --- War poetry, English --- Classical literature --- Civilization, Classical --- Reader-response criticism --- Reader-oriented criticism --- Reception aesthetics --- Criticism --- Reading --- Classical civilization --- Civilization, Ancient --- Classicism --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- European War, 1914-1918 --- First World War, 1914-1918 --- Great War, 1914-1918 --- World War 1, 1914-1918 --- World War I, 1914-1918 --- World War One, 1914-1918 --- WW I (World War, 1914-1918) --- WWI (World War, 1914-1918) --- History, Modern --- History and criticism --- Influence --- World War (1914-1918)