San Antonio College Library

Wasley shows how [W.H.] Auden's signal role in the work and lives of an entire younger generation of American poets challenges conventional literary histories that place Auden outside the American poetic tradition. In making his case, Wasley pays special attention to three of Auden's most distinguished American inheritors, presenting major new reading of James Merrill, John Ashbery, and Adrienne Rich. The result is a persuasive and compelling demonstration...