The American Landscape in the Poetry of Frost, Bishop, and Ashbery
The House Abandoned
Series: American Literature Readings in the 21st Century;
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Product details:
- Edition number 2008
- Publisher Palgrave Macmillan US
- Date of Publication 19 September 2008
- Number of Volumes 1 pieces, Book
- ISBN 9780230603226
- Binding Hardback
- See also 9781349371501
- No. of pages257 pages
- Size 216x140 mm
- Weight 465 g
- Language English
- Illustrations IX, 257 p. 0
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Long description:
Robert Frost, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Ashbery stand out among major American poets - all three shaped the direction and pushed the boundaries of contemporary poetry on an international scale. Drawing on biography, cultural history, and original archival research, MacArthur shows us that these distinctive poets share one surprisingly central trope in their oeuvres: the Romantic scene of the abandoned house. This book scrutinizes the popular notion of Frost as a deeply rooted New Englander, demonstrates that Frost had an underestimated influence on Bishop - whose preoccupation with houses and dwelling is the obverse of her obsession with travel - and questions dominant, anti-biographical readings of Ashbery as an urban-identified poet. As she reads poems that evoke particular landscapes and houses lost and abandoned by these poets, MacArthur also sketches relevant cultural trends, including patterns of rural de-settlement, the transformation of rural economies from agriculture to tourism, and modern American s increasing mobility and rootlessness.
MoreTable of Contents:
The House Abandoned Robert Frost: 'The Ruined Cottage' in America Elizabeth Bishop: Incarnations of the 'Crypto-Dream-House' John Ashbery: The Farm on the Lake at the End of the Mind
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