Arthur F. Marotti, ed. Critical Essays on John Donne. (Critical Essays on British Literature Series.) New York: G.K. Hall & Co., 1994. 2pls. + x + 185 pp. $45.00.

1996 ◽  
Vol 49 (4) ◽  
pp. 880-881
Author(s):  
Dana E. Aspinall
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
British Literature ◽  
John Donne

Ted Berrigan’s Stanzaic Spaces

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasmine Shamma
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Second Generation ◽  
John Donne ◽  
New York School ◽  
Poetic Form ◽  
Verse Form

After suggesting (and agreeing) that Berrigan led the Second Generation New York School, this chapter treats the actual forms of Berrigan’s poems, focusing on his sonnets to show that these poets interpret poems as spaces in which to recreate rooms. Berrigan, perhaps more obviously than any other New York School poet, took deliberate steps towards integrating aspects of traditional poetic verse form: Where John Donne encouraged: “We’ll build in sonnets pretty rooms,” Berrigan retorts (repeated throughout his Sonnets): “Is there room in the room that you room in?” riddling the form with domestic, urban and aesthetic complications. Berrigan explained to an interviewer: “I always thought of each one of my poems, like the sonnets, as being a room. And before that, I used to think of each stanza as being a room.” Accordingly, this chapter examines Berrigan’s stanzas as rooms, arguing that this responsive poetic form functions organically.

Commercial Influences in Popular Literature: An Empirical Study of Brand Name Usage in American and British Hit Plays in the Postwar Era

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-77 ◽  
Author(s):  
Monroe Friedman
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
British Literature ◽  
Popular Literature ◽  
Brand Names ◽  
Brand Name ◽  
World War ◽  
American Novels ◽  
The Impact ◽  
London Stage

This article examines the impact of commercial practices on popular American and British literature by analyzing the usage made since World War II of brand names and generic names in the scripts of a selected set of hit plays performed on the New York stage and the London stage. Taken together with the results of an earlier study on popular American novels, the findings lend support to the charges of increasing commercial influence in the popular literature of the postwar era. The findings also underscore the significance of earlier conceptualizations such as “word-of-author advertising” as well as commercial and non-commercial forms of materialism.

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