Poetry is often viewed as culturally homogeneous-"stubbornly
national," in T. S. Eliot's phrase, or "the most provincial of the
arts," according to W. H. Auden. But in A Transnational Poetics,
Jahan Ramazani uncovers the ocean-straddling energies of the poetic
imagination-in modernism and the Harlem Renaissance; in post-World
War II North America and the North Atlantic; and in ethnic
American, postcolonial, and black British writing. Cross-cultural
exchange and influence are, he argues, among the chief engines of
poetic development in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Reexamining the work of a wide array of poets, from Eliot, Yeats,
and Langston Hughes to Elizabeth Bishop, Lorna Goodison, and Agha
Shahid Ali, Ramazani reveals the many ways in which modern and
contemporary poetry in English overflows national borders and
exceeds the scope of national literary paradigms. Through a variety
of transnational templates-globalization, migration, travel, genre,
influence, modernity, decolonization, and diaspora-he discovers
poetic connection and dialogue across nations and even hemispheres.
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