Duncan Hose
The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes
- Springer International Publishing
- 2023
- Taschenbuch
- 320 Seiten
- ISBN 9783030948436
The Pursuit of Myth in the Poetry of Frank O'Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes traces a tradition of revolutionary self-mythologising in the lives and works of Frank O¿Hara, Ted Berrigan and John Forbes, as a significant trefoil in twentieth-century English language poetry. All three had untimely deaths, excited a collective homage, and developed cult followings that reverberate today. This book tracks the transmission of the poem as charm, the poet as charmer, and the reinstitution of troubadour erotics as a kind of social poetics. Starting with Orpheus, the book refreshes the myth of the poet as mythmaker, examining how myths of ¿self¿ and ¿nation¿ are
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