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Twentieth-Century Literature (2004) 50 (1): 59–87.
Published: 01 March 2004
... Williamson suggests, “confessional poetry—almost from the mo
ment that unfortunate term was coined—has been the whipping boy of
half a dozen newer schools, New Surrealism, New Formalism, Language
poetry” (“Stories” 51).
Marjorie Perloff defines the exciting “radical poetries” that dominate...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (4): 485–512.
Published: 01 December 2020
....” Copyright © 2020 Hofstra University 2020 confessional poetry individualism poetry puritanism “Ought I to regret my seedtime?” asks Robert Lowell (2003 : 187) in his 1959 poem “Memories of West Street and Lepke.” This particular seedtime is the “year” that the poet was “given” for his 1943...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2006) 52 (4): 367–390.
Published: 01 December 2006
..., the
very contemporaries whose weaknesses Strand hopes to transcend. Those
weaknesses, I will suggest, become the source o f a non-Bloomian and
wholly Strandian sort of poetic power.
369
Malcolm Woodland
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In “Landscape and the Poetry of the Self,” confessional becomes the name...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 150–173.
Published: 01 June 2002
... published Water Street (1962) was in part inspired
by confessional poetry, especially Lowell’s Life Studies, with its “autobio
graphical bent and shameless self-concentration.” Simic writes that Lowell
deeply influenced Merrill’s autobiographical preoccupations and stylis
tic directness, but he adds...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (1): 90–116.
Published: 01 March 2012
... easily identified as the
poet’s own.
This happens most fully in Grace Notes (1989). One of its most strik-
ing poems, “Genetic Expedition,” revises both the Emersonian sublime,
and the confessional mode. Confessional poetry would seem fundamen-
tally to oppose the Emersonian ideal...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2020) 66 (1): 37–58.
Published: 01 March 2020
... the man and poet are close,” that there is little “apparatus . . . between his urgent, conflicted, highly assertive nature, and the naked physique of the poetry.” A letter written by Plath (2018 : 777) in June 1962 suggests Douglas as a kind of forerunner to the confessional poetry of the postwar: “Ted...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2007) 53 (1): 1–22.
Published: 01 March 2007
... desperation comes
“Skunk Hour,” a poem dedicated to Bishop and, according to Lowell,
inspired by her “Armadillo.” Bishop was troubled by the potential grief
that Lowell’s confessional poetry could cause family and friends, but she
was equally persuaded that art depends on the revisiting...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (4): 493–529.
Published: 01 December 2010
...
recorded by police interrogators that, upon publication in newspapers,
was hailed by many as a postmodern autobiography. The revelations of
Burroughs’s texts even bear consideration in relation to the postwar rise
of a memoir culture and confessional poetry, not to mention Burroughs’s
canonization...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2008) 54 (4): 472–492.
Published: 01 December 2008
... alternative to dominant poetic trends
like gigantism or, later in her career, confessional poetry, but also as ac
tively responding in her work to the shape and scope of post—World War
II poetics.
482
Frames of Reference: Paterson in “In the Waiting Room”
Williams in “ In the Waiting R oom...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2000) 46 (2): 171–192.
Published: 01 June 2000
..., was “a shoddy
fate, if accurate,” while Hollander was “an honored scholarly instructor in
Illinois” whose poetry was to be published in the Kenyon Review. That
Ginsberg should judge himself so harshly in relation to Columbia—the alma
mater that had disciplined him in the 1940s—and to the Kenyan...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2014) 60 (2): 243–250.
Published: 01 June 2014
... the shelves of the International Information Administration’s
overseas libraries. Chinitz sifts carefully through the numerous moments
Hughes reflected on compromise in his autobiographies, fiction, and
poetry for insight into how the notoriously non-confessional writer
felt about these moments...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2013) 59 (1): 37–78.
Published: 01 March 2013
... Picasso,” and Poetry Magazine in Chicago, but also the fourth vol-
ume of Reports of the Cambridge Anthropological Expedition to Torres Straits
and the epochal revision of Notes and Queries on Anthropology—a key early
text of British Social Anthropology, which served as the field handbook...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2002) 48 (2): 117–149.
Published: 01 June 2002
... many reservations about this book, Bishop notes that:
In general, I deplore the “confessional”—however, when you
wrote Life Studies perhaps it was a necessary movement, and it
helped make poetry more real, fresh and immediate. But now—
ye gods—anything goes, and I am so sick...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2012) 58 (3): 399–438.
Published: 01 September 2012
... at one scale or the other and either
develop wide-ranging theories of culture, as some modernist poets had
attempted, or elaborate personal experience, as the confessional poets
would. When asked later in her career (1966) about the first approach,
poetry’s need for an organizing myth, Bishop’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2010) 56 (3): 428–435.
Published: 01 September 2010
...Keith D. Leonard Race and the Avant-Garde: Experimental and Asian American Poetry Since 1965 , by Yu Timothy , Stanford : Stanford University Press , 2009 . 192 pages. Copyright © Hofstra University 2010 Keith D. Leonard
By Any Other Name
Race and the Avant-Garde...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2023) 69 (1): 113–119.
Published: 01 March 2023
... of Mississippi . Haffenden John . 1982 . The Life of John Berryman . Boston : Routledge and Kegan Paul . Housman A. E. 1933 . The Name and Nature of Poetry . New York : Macmillan . Rilke Rainer Maria . 1934 . Letters to a Young Poet . Translated by Herter Norton M. D...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (1): 114–122.
Published: 01 March 2005
... with Questions: Mary Butts’s Sacred Interroga
tive.” 49.3 (2003): 360-387
Burke, Kenneth. See Genter
Butts, Mary. See Buchanan
arson, Luke. “James Merrill’s Manners and Elizabeth Bishop’s Dismay”
50.2 (2004): 167-191
Carstens, Lisa. “Sexual Politics and Confessional Testimony in Sophie’s...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2003) 49 (2): 219–245.
Published: 01 June 2003
... in the inaugural issue of Ms. magazine in January 1972. Moore
died the first week of February. She was 84 when the letter arrived and
quite ill. She almost certainly never saw it.
This letter is a harbinger of what would be asked of women writers
over the next 30 years. Although confessional poetry had...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (2): 179–209.
Published: 01 June 2005
... Merrill admired the generation of poets that included Elizabeth
Bishop, John Berryman, and Robert Lowell, but Bishop s poetry seemed
to him the best model for a younger poet. He preferred Bishop’s “lucid,
intimate tone of voice” (Prose 155) to that of Lowell and Berryman, and
the “human...
Journal Article
Twentieth-Century Literature (2005) 51 (4): 414–436.
Published: 01 December 2005
... impressively on your local Barnes
and Noble or Borders poetry shelf, cover facing out—the British coun
terpart to another hefty 2003 publication by Farrar, Straus, and Giroux,
the Collected Poems of Robert Lowell.1 On the cover, a cross-legged,
semireclined Hughes gazes absently away from...
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