Poetry, Place, and Painting in the Works of Frank O'Hara

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.

Name thesis:degree_name

Ph.D.

Level thesis:degree_level

Dissertation

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

English

Grantor

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Year dc:date

2015

Author dc:creator

• Wolf, Stephen Michael

Contributors dc:contributor

• James Hurt

• Literature, American

Language dc:language

eng

Identifier

(MiAaPQ)AAI9912429

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/81498