Writing Against Expulsion in the Post-War World: Making Space for the Human (Oxford Mid-Century Studies Series)

Literature & Fiction

Herd, David

History & Criticism

Oxford University Press

David Herd provides a critical language for a ppreciating the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing. Presenting the poet in all his forms--avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime, and camp--he demonstrates that the inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poet's desire to fit the poem to its occasion. Tracing Ashbery's development from his origins in the dazzling artistic world of 1950s New York, Herd portrays Ashbery as both an American pragmatist writing in the spirit of William James, and a committed literary internationalist learning from Boris Pasternak and the Russian avant-garde. His poetry is shown to be alive to such culturally defining issues as the growth of mass culture, the absence of God, the war in Vietnam, the emergence of AIDS, the erosion of tradition, and the decline of the avant-garde. Herd compares Ashbery's responses to the work of, among others, Robert Lowell, John Berryman, Kenneth Koch, and Frank O'Hara.

John Ashbery and American Poetry

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Songs From David Herd's Manuscripts, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)

Poetry

Forgotten Books

"The first classical collection of Scottish Songs and Ballads", as Sir Walter Scott called it, was originally published in 1776. This reissue of David Herd's pioneering work is a reprint of the edition of 1869, which contains in an Appendix all the pieces substituted in the edition of 1791 for those omitted in the 1776 edition.The work, in two volumes, is divided into three parts as PART ONE, Heroic Ballads and PART TWO, Sentimental and Love Songs; PART THREE, Comic and Humorous Songs.

Ancient and modern Scottish songs, heroic ballads etc.,

History

Europe

Scottish Academic Press

This new book is the first British study of John Ashbery's work. Showing that a sense of occasion-the sense that the poem should be fit for its occasion-was a binding principle for the poets of the New York School. David Herd traces the development of Ashbery's poetry in the light of this idea. The book is a study of Ashbery's career, as well as of the period in which that career has taken shape.

Lucidly written and combatively argued, this book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers have modernized and re-modeled the sense of enthusiasm founded by Emerson. Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on: Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara, and Schuyler. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast and charts the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day.

Enthusiast!: Essays on Modern American literature

United States

Manchester University Press

starting point. David Herd sets out to provide readers with a new critical language through which they can appreciate the beauty and complexity of Ashbery's writing. Presenting the poet in all his forms -avant-garde, nostalgic, sublime and camp - the book argues that the perpetual inventiveness of Ashbery's work has always been underpinned by the poets desire to write the poem fit to cope with its occasion. Tracing Ashbery's development in the light of this idea, and from its origins in the dazzling artistic environment of 1950's New York, the book evaluates his poetry against the aesthetic, literary and historical backgrounds that have informed it. The story of a brilliant career, and a history of the period in which that career has taken shape, 'John Ashbery and American Poetry' provides a compelling account of Ashbery's importance to Twentieth Century Literature.

Enthusiast! is a polemical history of American literature told from the point of view of six of its major enthusiasts. Complaining that his age was 'retrospective', Emerson injected enthusiasm into American literature as a way of making it new. 'What,' he asked, 'is a man good for without enthusiasm? and what is enthusiasm but the daring of ruin for its object?' This book takes enthusiasm to be a defining feature of American literature, showing how successive major writers - Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, Frank O'Hara and James Schuyler - have modernized and re-modeled Emerson's founding sense of enthusiasm. The book presents the writer as enthusiast, showing how enthusiasm is fundamental to the composition and the circulation of literature. Enthusiasm, it is argued, is the way literary value is passed on. Starting with a brief history of enthusiasm from Plato to Kant and Emerson, the book features chapters on each of Melville, Thoreau, Pound, Moore, O'Hara, and Schuyler. Each chapter presents an aspect of the writer as enthusiast, the book as a whole charting the changing sense of literary enthusiasm from Romanticism to the present day. Lucidly written and combatively argued, the book will appeal to readers of American Literature or Modern Poetry, and to all those interested in the circulation of literary work.

Songs From David Herd's Manuscripts

Hecht, Hans

Legare Street Press

Ancient and Modern Scottish Songs, Heroic Ballads, etc.;

Paton, George

BiblioLife

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