Aberration in Modern Poetry: Essays on Atypical Works by Yeats, Auden, Moore, Heaney and Others

by Lucy Collins (Editor), Stephen Matterson (Editor)

Overview

This critical work considers the role played by elements that might be considered aberrational in a poet's oeuvre. With an introductory essay exploring the nature of aberration, these fourteen contributions investigate the work of major 20th-century poets from the U.S., Britain, Ireland, Australia and New Zealand. Aberration is considered from the standpoint of both the artist and the audience, prompting discussion on a range of important issues, including the formation of the canon. Each essay discusses the status of the aberrant work and the ways in which it challenges, enlarges or supports the overall perception of the poet.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780786462957
Publisher:	McFarland & Company, Incorporated Publishers
Publication date:	01/04/2012
Pages:	254
Product dimensions:	5.90(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.70(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Lucy Collins is a lecturer at the School of English, Drama & Film at University College, Dublin. She has published widely on modern and contemporary poetry, with a special emphasis on women’s poetry and on ecocriticism. Stephen Matterson is associate professor of English Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He specializes in American literature with particular interests in poetry and in the work of Herman Melville.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments     
Preface     
Introduction: “I learn by going where I have to go”
LUCY COLLINS AND STEPHEN MATTERSON     

Omission and Aberration in Marianne Moore’s Poetry CRISTANNE MILLER     
W.H. Auden’s Detours STEPHEN MATTERSON     
“Coming up England by a different line”: Philip Larkin and Louis MacNeice STEPHEN REGAN     
Participation without Belonging: Apostrophe and Aberration in Seamus Heaney’s North SCOTT BREWSTER     
Another Side of Paul Muldoon: The Poet as Lyricist MARIA JOHNSTON     
That “Saving Ray of Strangeness”: The Late Poems of George Oppen PETER NICHOLLS     
The One Continuous Line: Louise Glück and the Necessity of Writing LUCY COLLINS     
“By Writing and Example”: James K. Baxter’s Long- Haired Romanticism JOHN NEWTON     
X/Self: Kamau Brathwaite at the Crossroads LEE M. JENKINS     
Unsettling Language: л.o.’s 24 Hours PHILIP MEAD     
Face to Face with Clumsiness: Aberration, Errancy and W.B. Yeats JEFFERSON HOLDRIDGE     
Hartnett’s Farewell PAUL DURCAN     
Time to Send Home the Troops? CAROL RUMENS     
Cézanne’s Bathers HARRY CLIFTON     

About the Contributors     
Index