Abstract
Although the New York School of Poets opposed reception as a unified artistic movement, study of a selection of their early poetry illustrates that John Ashbery, Kenneth Koch, Frank O’Hara and James Schuyler all shared a concern with developing new techniques of representation.This essay argues that much of their experimentation was motivated by a desire to communicate personal experience in poetry without clarification or analysis, and so to depict the self without elevating the significance of the individual.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 244-255 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Literature Compass |
Volume | 3 |
Issue number | 3 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - May 2006 |