TY - BOOK AU - Wasley,Aidan TI - The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene SN - 9780691136790 AV - PS323.5 U1 - 811.5409 23 PY - 2010///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - American poetry KW - History and criticism KW - 20th century KW - Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.) KW - History KW - LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry KW - bisacsh KW - Adrienne Rich KW - America KW - American poetic tradition KW - American poets KW - Derek Walcott KW - Irving Feldman KW - James Merrill KW - James Schuyler KW - John Ashbery KW - John Hollander KW - Louis Simpson KW - Richard Howard KW - The Changing Light at Sandover KW - W. H. Auden KW - emigrant KW - emigration KW - modernism KW - post-war poetry KW - women poets N1 - Frontmatter --; Content --; List of Abbreviations --; Preface --; Prologue. Auden in "Atlantis" --; Part I --; 1. A Way of Happening --; Part II --; 2. Father of Forms --; 3. The Gay Apprentice --; 4 The Old Sources --; Epilogue. He Became His Admirers: --; Notes --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print N2 - 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 UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400836352?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400836352 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/cover/covers/9781400836352.jpg ER -