tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post1055127594512625584..comments2024-03-19T21:14:01.007-07:00Comments on The Compass Rose: O'Hara / DeanCurtis Favillehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-13253047216974797592013-12-16T06:03:03.431-08:002013-12-16T06:03:03.431-08:00Liam:
The interesting thing to remember is that O...Liam:<br /><br />The interesting thing to remember is that O'Hara's academic background was initially quite traditional--Harvard and Michigan. He found the early Modernists and European Surrealists and Russians on his own. <br /><br />I've always been amazed at how O'Hara turned odes and elegies and paeans into HIS language occasion, while retaining all the emotional and formal tropes of the English lyric tradition. A miraculous update.Curtis Favillehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06213075853354387634noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-80431429582602496332013-12-16T00:44:37.767-08:002013-12-16T00:44:37.767-08:00What a great article - I've long been fascinat...What a great article - I've long been fascinated by the relationship between Frank and Jimmy and have read the poem hundreds of times. It's interesting to read that Frank studied Milton, Shelley and Tennyson in preparation - I wrote my undergraduate thesis on the romantic influence upon O'Hara's poetry, and I didn't know this fact.<br /><br />One thing, though - O'Hara was killed in 1966, not 68.<br /><br />Many thanks for another utterly absorbing post.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1660090614793277371.post-25979087736469163942013-12-09T06:57:20.742-08:002013-12-09T06:57:20.742-08:00This comment has been removed by the author.Ed Bakerhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11285310130024785775noreply@blogger.com