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The Age of Auden

Postwar Poetry and the American Scene

By: Aidan Wasley

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The Age of Auden

Postwar Poetry and the American Scene

By: Aidan Wasley

How W. H. Auden’s emigration to the United States changed the course of postwar American poetry 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.

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Princeton University Press

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1400836352

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The Age of Auden

Postwar Poetry and the American Scene

By: Aidan Wasley

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Postwar Poetry and the American Scene

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Strolling Through London

The Definitive Walking Guide

By: Aidan Wasley

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Strolling Through London

The Definitive Walking Guide

By: Aidan Wasley

The young T.S. Eliot, recently settled in London in 1914, described his new city to an American cousin: "It is foreign, but hospitable, or rather tolerant, and perhaps does not so demand to be understood as does Paris. Less jealous." London’s obliging equanimity in the face of two millennia of expectant newcomers, pilgrims, and tourists has been a distinguishing feature of the place since it was founded as a Roman colonial encampment around 43 AD. It is a huge yet humane city, without the vastly impersonal skyscraper-canyons of New York or the antique fragility of relic-filled Rome. It’s an international capital that embraces the individual at eyelevel, welcoming the walker to wander, explore, and join the numberless millions who have found themselves—in every sense—in this lively, companionable, and endlessly evolving city. Strolling Through London take its walking reader across this buzzing metropolis, balancing the expected tourist highlights with lesser-known corners and byways, and encouraging the kinds of rewarding experience and discovery that only come from a true engagement with London’s complex, vibrant history, and spirit.

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