The All-Sustaining Air
Subtitle: Romantic Legacies and Renewals in British, American, and Irish Poetry since 1900
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: November 11, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9780199299287
Subjects: Literary studies: from c 1900 -; Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -; English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh; Poetry; Literary Criticism / Poetry; Literary Criticism; Literature - Classics / Criticism; 20th century; American poetry; English poetry; History and criticism; Irish authors
Description: "Drawn from Shelley's Prometheus Unbound, the title of this book suggests the cultural and literary persistence of the Romantic in the work of many British, American, and Irish poets since 1900. Allowing for and celebrating the multiple, even fracture nature of Romantic legacies, Michael O'Neill focuses on the creative impact of Romantic poetry on twentieth - and twenty-first century poetry. Individual chapters embrace numerous authors and texts, and span different cultures; the intention is not the forlorn hope of completeness, but the wish to open up possibilities and intersections, and there is a strong sense throughout of poetry serving as a form of literary criticism."--Jacket.