[PDF] The Double Dream Of Spring eBook

Author : John Ashbery
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 117 pages
File Size : 27,11 MB
Release : 2014-09-09
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 1480459186

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One of Ashbery’s most important masterworks: Widely studied, critically admired, and essential to understanding one of the modern era’s most revolutionary poets The Double Dream of Spring, originally published in 1970, followed the critical success of John Ashbery’s National Book Award–nominated collection Rivers and Mountains and introduced the signature voice—reflective, acute, and attuned to modern language as it is spoken—that just a few years later would carry Ashbery’s Pulitzer Prize–winning masterpiece Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror. Ashbery fans and lovers of modern poetry alike will recognize here some of the century’s most anthologized and critically admired works of poetry, including “Soonest Mended,” “Decoy,” “Sunrise in Suburbia,” “Evening in the Country,” the achingly beautiful long poem “Fragment,” and Ashbery’s so-called Popeye poem, the mordant and witty “Farm Implements and Rutabagas in a Landscape.” The Double Dream of Spring helped cement Ashbery’s reputation as a must-read American poet, and no library of modern poetry is complete without it.

Author : David Herd
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 29,52 MB
Release : 2024-07-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1526185806

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David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery’s writing. Presenting the poet in all his forms –avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp – the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery’s work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion. Tracing Ashbery’s development in the light of this idea, and from its origins in the dazzling artistic environment of 1950’s New York, the book evaluates his poetry against the aesthetic, literary and historical backgrounds that have informed it. The story of a brilliant career, and a history of the period in which that career has taken shape, John Ashbery and American Poetry provides a compelling account of Ashbery’s importance to Twentieth Century Literature.

Author : Thomas Gardner
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1999-01-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780803221765

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In Regions of Unlikeness Thomas Gardner explores the ways a number of quite different twentieth-century American poets, including Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashbery, Robert Hass, Jorie Graham, and Michael Palmer, frame their work as taking place within, and being brought to life by, an acknowledgment of the limits of language. Gardner approaches their poetry in light of philosopher Stanley Cavell?s remarkably similar engagement with the issues of skepticism and linguistic finitude. The skeptic?s refusal to settle for anything less than perfect knowledge of the world, Cavell maintains, amounts to a refusal to accept the fact of human finitude. Gardner argues that both Cavell and the poets he discusses reject skepticism?s world-erasing conclusions but nonetheless honor the truth about the limits of knowledge that skepticism keeps alive. In calling attention to the limits of such acts as describing or remembering, the poets Gardner examines attempt to renew language by teasing a charged drama out of their inability to grasp with certainty. ø Juxtaposed with Gardner?s readings of the work of the younger poets are his interviews with them. In many ways, these conversations are at the core of Gardner?s book, demonstrating the wide-ranging implications of the struggles and mappings enacted in the poems. The interviews are themselves examples of the charged intimacy Gardner deals with in his readings.

Author : Mike Topp
Publisher :
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 42,5 MB
Release : 2017
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"Set in New York City, Florida, and the far reaches of the cosmos, the book recounts the adventures of Peg Sluice and Beckett, a 21st-century Nick and Nora, on the trail of an elusive hatbox which grants its possessors superhuman powers. Just when success looks imminent, Peg and Beckett encounter an intractable, elite villain, Red Soapy"--https://albanypoets.com/2017/12/double-dream-spring-peg-sluice-mystery-mike-topp-sparrow/

Author : Lynn Gamwell
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 14,86 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Dream interpretation
ISBN : 080143730X

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"Written to commemorate the centenary of Freud's classic work, this illustrated book examines the shifting roles that dreams have played in twentieth century art and science."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Ben Hickman
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2012-03-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0748644768

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A study of how we should read one of America's most important poets. Ben Hickman argues that we must attend to Ashbery's radical conception of reading if we are to understand the originality of his writing. His study focuses on Ashbery's reading of English poets, including Andrew Marvell, John Donne, William Wordsworth, John Clare, T. S. Eliot and W. H. Auden, and examines Ashbery's writing in terms of an 'aesthetic of inattention'. Hickman critiques the Americanisation of Ashbery's work as well as common assumptions about his Romanticism, his avant-garde Modernism and his engagement with the historical present. He demonstrates that Ashbery's generosity as a writer is closely tied to his generosity, inattention and situatedness as a reader.

Author : Stephen Joseph Ross
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 20,87 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0198798385

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Stephen J. Ross examines the concept of nature in the work of John Ashbery. Through close readings of Ashbery's poetry and critical prose, he reveals Ashbery's work to be a case study of the dramatic transformation of nature in art and literature since World War II.

Author : Harold Bloom
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 218 pages
File Size : 40,5 MB
Release : 2010
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1604135883

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From the modernist explorations of the first half of the 20th century to the diverse styles and practitioners of the 21st century, contemporary American poetry has forged a vital and enduring tradition. This volume explores the genre's recent history and development, as succeeding generations of poets have taken up the American idiom and molded it into their own unique modes of expression. This new edition explores contemporary poetry through a selection of critical essays and also features an introductory essay by esteemed professor Harold Bloom.

Author : James McCorkle
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 18,45 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780813911960

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The Still Performance examines the poetry of five postmodern American poets: Elizabeth Bishop, John Ashberry, Adrienne Rich, W.S. Merwin, and Charles Wright. McCorkle devotes a chapter to each one of these five poets and provides an extensive overview of their poetics. The author concludes that postmodern poetry, and these poets in particular, are engaged in various but overlapping reappraisals of modernism. More importantly, he asserts the necessity of critical inquiry bound to the persistent act of self-examination.