Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara
Wolf, Stephen Michael
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Description
Title
Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara
Author(s)
Wolf, Stephen Michael
Issue Date
1998
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
James Hurt
Department of Study
English
Discipline
English
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
Ph.D.
Degree Level
Dissertation
Keyword(s)
Literature, American
Language
eng
Abstract
Frank O'Hara defined himself, both as a man and a poet, as Eliot's antithesis. Eventually, O'Hara would create a modern urban poetry that repudiated Eliot's poetry and the attitudes it conveyed, a repudiation that culminates in O'Hara's Second Avenue, a modern urban epic that both emulates and is antithetical to Eliot's The Waste Land. Having broken free of Eliot's influence and establishing his own poetic manifesto, O'Hara could embrace his generation's dominant art form: painting rather than literature and Abstract Expressionist painting in particular. This new freedom allowed O'Hara to experiment in words with painterly techniques and eventually satisfy one of his great desires---to take part in a true collaboration with a painter, a desire achieved with Larry Rivers and their twelve lithographs entitled Stone.
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