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‘A New Mimesis’: Approaches to Representation in the Poetry of the New York School
Article first published online: 13 MAR 2006
DOI: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00317.x
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Wood, A. (2006), ‘A New Mimesis’: Approaches to Representation in the Poetry of the New York School. Literature Compass, 3: 244–255. doi: 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00317.x
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- Issue published online: 13 MAR 2006
- Article first published online: 13 MAR 2006
- Literature Compass 3/3 (2006): 244–255, 10.1111/j.1741-4113.2006.00317.x
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Abstract
This essay was runner-up in the 2005 Literature Compass Graduate Essay Prize, American Section.
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.