Midcentury Quartet: Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmbishop, Lowell, Jarrell, Berryman, and the Making of a Postmodern Aesthetic Odern Aesthetic by Thomas Travisano
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Overview: In a February 1966 letter to her artistic confidant, Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop tellingly grouped four midcentury poets: Lowell, Randall Jarrell, John Berryman, and herself. For Bishop–always wary of being pigeonholed and therefore reticent about naming her favorite contemporaries–it was a rare explicit acknowledgment of an informal but enduring artistic circle that has evaded the notice of literary journalists for more than forty years. Despite the private nature of their dialogue, the group’s members–Bishop, Lowell, Jarrell, and Berryman–left a compelling record of their mutual interchange and influence. Drawing on an extensive range of published and archival sources, Thomas Travisano traces these poets’ creation of a surprisingly coherent postmodern aesthetic and defines its continuing influence on American poetry.
The refusal of this “midcentury quartet,” as Travisano calls them, to voice a formalized doctrine, coupled with their intuitive way of working, has caused critics to miss the coherence of their project. Travisano argues that these poets are not only successors to Pound, Auden, Stevens, and Eliot but postmodern explorers in their own right. In forging their own aesthetic, characterized here as a postmodern mode of elegy, they encountered significant resistance from their immediate modernist mentors Allen Tate, John Crowe Ransom, and Marianne Moore.
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