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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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La complessità delle connessioni fra umano e non-umano ha trovato nella tradizione poetica statunitense sviluppi estetici originali per ampiezza e profondità. Al contempo, volendo articolare nel testo letterario il silenzio della natura e le sue conseguenze, l’indagine estetica si è sempre più caricata di valenze assiologiche ed epistemologiche, in un crescente intrecciarsi di estetica ed etica. In queste pagine, tre delle maggiori poetesse del Novecento americano aiutano ad illuminare proprio questo spazio di riflessione, ancora ampiamente inesplorato dalla critica. La lettura di Denise Levertov, Mary Oliver e Louise Glück rivela una tensione relazionale il cui fulcro immaginativo ed etico è qui rintracciato nel dialogo muto ma costitutivo fra io lirico e natura. Poesia dopo poesia fiorisce l’impegno poetico a tradurre per il lettore quel tacito conversare che intesse il rapporto fra soggetto umano e mondo naturale e che contiene e mantiene le polarità costitutive di un’interazione in apparenza impossibile, silenziosa eppure sensibile, differita eppure presente, ineffabile eppure reale. Questa lirica esalta e potenzia il carattere relazionale e perfino dialogico dell’esperienza. L’espressione poetica si configura, allora, come un tentativo di con-versare, di costruire insieme all’altro, natura e lettore, la poesia
Poetry --- tradition poétique américaine --- humaine et non-humaine --- esthétique --- poésie --- Amérique --- XXe siècle --- tradizione poetica statunitense --- umano e non-umano --- estetica --- America --- Novecento --- American poetic tradition --- human and non-human --- aesthetics --- poetry --- twentieth century --- Oliver, Mary, --- Levertov, Denise, --- Glück, Louise, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Levertoff, Denise, --- Goodman, Denise Levertov, --- Oliver, Mary Jane,
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