The all-sustaining air : romantic legacies and renewals in British, American, and Irish poetry since 1900

Publication Data

• Title The all-sustaining air : romantic legacies and renewals in British, American, and Irish poetry since 1900
• Author Michael O'Neill
• Publisher Oxford University Press
• Publication date 2007
• Publication location Oxford
• Language English

Contents

Introduction : 'original response'
'The all-sustaining air' : variations on a romantic metaphor
'A vision of reality' : mid-to-late Yeats
'Dialectic ways' : T.S. Eliot and counter-romanticism
'The guts of the living' : Auden and Spender in the 1930s
'The death of Satan' : Stevens's 'Esthétique du mal', evil, and the romantic imagination
'Shining in modest glory' : post-romantic strains in Kavanagh, Heaney, Mahon, Carson, and others
'Just another twist in the plot' : Paul Muldoon's 'Madoc : a mystery'
Deep shocks of recognition and 'gutted' romanticism : Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher.

Topics

• English poetry :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• English poetry :: Irish authors :: History and criticism
• American poetry :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• Romanticism :: Great Britain :: History :: 20th century
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The all-sustaining air : romantic legacies and renewals in British, American, and Irish poetry since 1900 by Michael O'Neill. ISBN 9780199299287. Published by Oxford University Press in 2007. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.