{"product_id":"the-age-of-auden-postwar-poetry-and-the-american-scene-9780691136790","title":"The Age of Auden: Postwar Poetry and the American Scene","description":"\u003cp\u003eHow W. H. Audens emigration to the United States changed the course of postwar American poetry  W. H. Audens emigration from England to the United States in 1939 marked more than a turning point in his own life and workit changed the course of American poetry itself. The Age of Auden takes  for the first time  the full measure of Audens influence on American poetry. Combining a broad survey of Audens midcentury U.S. cultural presence with an account of his dramatic impact on a wide range of younger American poetsfrom Allen Ginsberg to Sylvia Plaththe 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 Audens 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 Audens 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 Audens central place within it.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"My Store","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45666331525173,"sku":"ByrdShop_0691136793","price":69.3,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0627\/8139\/0901\/files\/9780691136790.jpg?v=1782428499","url":"https:\/\/atxbooks.com\/products\/the-age-of-auden-postwar-poetry-and-the-american-scene-9780691136790","provider":"ATX Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}