... Gertrude Mackey Nathaniel Brooks Gwendolyn poets poetry W. H. Auden George Oppen And the child We took on a trip Said “We’re having the life of our times.” —george oppen, “quotations” My aim in this book has been to open up a topic largely ignored in the study of poetry...

.... The schoolmaster in Sandover's classroom and a central figure in the composition and narrative of the poem, was Auden. Auden W H —works “Table Talk” Merrill The Table Talk of W H Auden “In Memory of W B Yeats” Auden “The Book of Ephraim” Merrill The Changing Light at Sandover Merrill...

... in the 1860s” Rich “Implosions” Rich “An Atlas of a Difficult World” Rich “Dreamwood” Rich “In Sickness and in Health” Auden love Shapiro Karl A Will to Change Rich “Canzone” Auden “Inscriptions History” Rich Williams William Carlos Adrienne Rich women poets W. H. Auden American poets American...

...This chapter first details W. H. Auden's arrival in New York in January 1939. His emigration from England, and his arrival in America marked a crucial moment in twentieth-century literary history, when the heir apparent to T. S. Eliot as the dominant presence in British poetry abandoned his English...

.... “In Memory of W B Yeats” Auden poetry as consciousness Yeats W B Ansen Alan Auden W H elegies “In Memory of Major Robert Gregory” Yeats Kallman Chester Schuyler James “Wystan Auden” Schuyler The Table Talk of W H Auden —works Ginsberg Allen Hecht Anthony “Ischia” Auden MacNeice Louis Merrill...

...Pronouns are crucial tools for any poet. They create dramatic relation and perspective, but because they are insubstantial they allow for abstraction and inclusion. No poet was quite so preoccupied with pronouns as W. H. Auden, who reflects on them often in his poetry and essays. This chapter...

... Norse Harold On the Road Kerouac The Table Talk of W H Auden Alone with America Howard Hecht Anthony Simpson Louis Trilling Diana Wilbur Richard “The Age of Anxiety” Auden Bowles Paul and Jane Collected Poems A Ginsberg Fearing Kenneth “In Memory of Sigmund Freud” Auden Melville Herman...

... Modernism “Recent Tendencies in Poetry” Ashbery Romanticism The Double Man Auden “Have a Good Time” Auden “Illustration” Ashbery Koch Kenneth Matthiessen F O “Musée des Beaux Arts” Auden O’Hara Frank “The Painter” Ashbery “Paysage Moralisé” Auden “The Poetic Medium of W H Auden” Ashbery...

...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. This book takes, for the first time, the full measure of Auden's influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey...

... Derrida Jacques Spender Stephen Altieri Charles Jarrell Randall Replogle Justin Smith Stan Boly John Layard John Lehman David Owen Wilfred Mallarmé Stéphane Hopkins Gerard Manley W. H. Auden plurality self poetry poems The Orators Montaigne I was of three minds, Like a tree In which...

...This is the first book to focus on the poet's use of the first-person plural voice—poetry's “we.” Closely exploring the work of W. H. Auden, the book uncovers the trove of thought and feeling carried in this small word. While lyric has long been associated with inwardness and a voice saying “I...