Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry

Publication Data

• Title Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry
• Author Jeffrey Gray
• Publisher University of Georgia Press
• Publication date 2005
• Publication location Athens, GA
• Language English

Contents

Roots and routes : the trouble with travel
Falling off the round, turning world : Elizabeth Bishop's Tristes tropiques
Interlude : travelers and tourists : from Bishop to Lowell
Fear of flying : Robert Lowell and the Trope of vulnerability
Interlude : dandies and flaneurs : American poetry and the center-margin debate
The great escape : John Ashbery's Travel Agency
Shooting the Gulf : three beat questions of travel
The problem of witness : the travels of Derek Walcott
Travel and difference : Lyn Hejinian and Nathaniel Mackey
Epilogue : the trouble with travel.

Topics

• American poetry :: Foreign influences
• American poetry :: 20th century :: History and criticism
• Americans :: Foreign countries :: History :: 20th century
• Travelers in literature
• Travel in literature
• Foreign countries :: In literature
• Foreign countries

Mastery's end : travel and postwar American poetry by Jeffrey Gray. ISBN 0820326631. Published by University of Georgia Press in 2005. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.