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Acknowledgments The authors and publisher gratefully acknowledge permission to reprint copyrighted material as follows: From Selected Poems by Simon Armitage, reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. From “Into the Dusk-Charged Air,” and “Civilization and Its Discontents,” from Rivers and Mountains, by John Ashbery, copyright © 1962, 1963, 1964, 1966 by John Ashbery. Reprinted by permission of Georges Borchardt, Inc., for the author and Carcanet Press Limited, Manchester. From Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror by John Ashbery, copyright © 1972, 1973, 1972, 1975 by John Ashbery. Used by permission of Viking Penguin, a division of Penguin Group (USA), Inc., and Carcanet Press Limited, Manchester. From “On the Circuit,” copyright © 1976 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith, and Monroe K. Spears, executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden; “The Secret Agent,” copyright © 1928 by W. H. Auden; “The Watchers,” copyright © 1976 by Edward Mendelson , William Meredith, and Monroe K. Spears, executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden; “Ten Songs,” copyright © 1976 by Edward Mendelson, William Meredith, and Monroe K. Spears, executors of the Estate of W. H. Auden; “Letter to Lord Byron,” copyright 1937 by W. H. Auden from Collected Poems by W. H. Auden, used by permission of Random House, Inc., and by permission of Faber and Faber Ltd. From “Two Organs,” from Collected Poems by John Berryman, copyright © 1989 by Kate Donahue Berryman, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and Faber and Faber, Ltd. From The Complete Poems: 1927–1979 by Elizabeth Bishop, copyright © 1979, 1983 by Alice Methfessel, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC. Bonnie Costello’s essay,“A Whole Climate of Opinion: Auden’s Influence on Bishop” is reprinted from volume 5, number 1 of Literary Imagination: The Review of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics, © 2003. Used by permission of the Association of Literary Scholars and Critics. From “Burnt Norton” in Four Quartets by T. S. Eliot, copyright 1936 by Harcourt, Inc., and renewed 1964 by T. S. Eliot, reprinted by permission of the publisher and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From Landlocked by Mark Ford published by Chatto and Windus, used by permission of the Random House Group Limited. From Soft Sift, copyright © 2001 by Mark Ford, reprinted by permission of Harcourt, Inc., and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From Collected Poems by Thom Gunn, copyright © 1994 by Thom Gunn, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From “rain journal: london: june 65” by Lee Harwood. Copyright © by Lee Harwood. Used by permission of the author. From “Cycle,” from Canaan by Geoffrey Hill, copyright © 1996 by Geoffrey Hill, reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Company, all rights reserved. From “Bogland,” from Opened Ground: Selected Poems 1966–1996 by Seamus Heaney, copyright © 1998 by Seamus Heaney, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From Acrimony by Michael Hofmann, reprinted by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From “To Robert Conquest—13 August 1959,” from Selected Letters by Philip Larkin, copyright © 1992 by The Estate of Philip Larkin, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From “The New State” by Tony Lopez. Copyright © 2000 by Tony Lopez. Used by permission of the author. From Notebook by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1967, 1968, 1969, 1970 by Robert Lowell, copyright renewed 1998 by Harriet Lowell.“These Winds” from Selected Poems by Robert Lowell, copyright © 1976 by Robert Lowell, reprinted by permission of Farrar, Straus and Giroux, LLC, and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. From “Canto LXXX” by Ezra Pound, from The Cantos of Ezra Pound, copyright © 1934, 1937, 1940, 1948, 1956, 1959, 1962, 1963, 1966, and 1968 by Ezra Pound, used by permission of New Directions Publishing Corporation, and by permission of Faber and Faber, Ltd. Stan Smith’s “‘A Package Deal’: The Descent of Modernism” was published under a different title in volume 20 of Miscelánea (Zaragoza University, departmento de filología inglesa y alemana, Spain). Reprinted with permission of the journal and of Stan Smith, who retains the copyright. 216 : : : Acknowledgments ...

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