Aberration in Modern Poetry

Lucy Collins is a lecturer at the School of English, Drama & Film at University College, Dublin. She has published widely on modern and contemporary poetry, with a special emphasis on women’s poetry and on ecocriticism. Stephen Matterson is associate professor of English Studies at Trinity College, University of Dublin. He specializes in American literature with particular interests in poetry and in the work of Herman Melville.

• Table of ContentsAcknowledgments     Preface      Introduction: “I learn by going where I have to go”LUCY COLLINS AND STEPHEN MATTERSON      Omission and Aberration in Marianne Moore’s Poetry CRISTANNE MILLER      W.H. Auden’s Detours STEPHEN MATTERSON      “Coming up England by a different line”: Philip Larkin and Louis MacNeice STEPHEN REGAN      Participation without Belonging: Apostrophe and Aberration in Seamus Heaney’s North SCOTT BREWSTER      Another Side of Paul Muldoon: The Poet as Lyricist MARIA JOHNSTON      That “Saving Ray of Strangeness”: The Late Poems of George Oppen PETER NICHOLLS      The One Continuous Line: Louise Glück and the Necessity of Writing LUCY COLLINS      “By Writing and Example”: James K. Baxter’s Long- Haired Romanticism JOHN NEWTON      X/Self: Kamau Brathwaite at the Crossroads LEE M. JENKINS      Unsettling Language: л.o.’s 24 Hours PHILIP MEAD      Face to Face with Clumsiness: Aberration, Errancy and W.B. Yeats JEFFERSON HOLDRIDGE      Hartnett’s Farewell PAUL DURCAN      Time to Send Home the Troops? CAROL RUMENS      Cézanne’s Bathers HARRY CLIFTON      About the Contributors      Index