Jahan Ramazani

Author of The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry

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Jahan Ramazani is University Professor and the Edgar F. Shannon Professor of English at the University of Virginia. He is the author of five other books, among them, A Transnational Poetics and Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres, also published by the University show more of Chicago Press. show less

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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry (2003) — Editor — 319 copies

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry (2003) — Editor — 289 copies

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 2: Contemporary Poetry (2003) — Editor — 117 copies

Poetry of Mourning: The Modern Elegy from Hardy to Heaney (1994) 22 copies

The Hybrid Muse: Postcolonial Poetry in English (2001) 15 copies

The Cambridge companion to postcolonial poetry (2017) 11 copies

A Transnational Poetics (2009) 10 copies

Poetry and Its Others: News, Prayer, Song, and the Dialogue of Genres (2013) 5 copies

Yeats and the Poetry of Death: Elegy, Self-Elegy, and the Sublime (1990) 1 copy

The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry, Volume 1: Modern Poetry 3th (third) edition Text Only (2002) 1 copy

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The Norton Anthology of English Literature, 9th Edition, Volume F (2012) — Editor, some editions — 162 copies

The Oxford handbook of the elegy (2010) — Contributor — 9 copies

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The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary… by Jahan Ramazani

Hmm, I suppose I'll update this as I read more, assuming I remember to, because I am obsessive like that.

Elizabeth Bishop - Well, "Crusoe in England" absolutely and unexpectedly broke my heart. I guess in general I like my poetry more blatantly angsty, though, and I'm not so much for the long and detailed descriptions.

Robert Lowell - Blah. I think his poetry got more tolerable as he aged, but I still don't care for it.

Dylan Thomas - I like him a lot. A little arcane, but really awesome imagery and gorgeous language. I suspect I may be a Romantic.

Philip Larkin - I also like him a lot! Which is funny, because he was writing in reaction to poets like Thomas. He's actually a very good technical writer, though, with a clear, strong voice. He often writes in blank verse, which I like. And I like the way he handles his subject matter - he's not an extremist.

James Dickey - He's okay. "The Sheep Child" is actually extremely awesome.

A.R. Ammons - Bores me.

Allen Ginsberg - Surprisingly, I kind of like him, particularly when he's being whimsical and sad. The beatnik search for transcendence doesn't really appeal to me, but he makes it interesting. I like "America" and "A Supermarket in California."… (more)

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