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Something We Have That They Don't presents a variety of essays on the relationship between British and American poetry since 1925. The essays collected here all explore some aspect of the rich and complex history of Anglo-American poetic relations of the last seventy years. Since the dawn of Modernism poets either side of the Atlantic have frequently inspired each other's developments, from Frost's galvanizing advice to Edward Thomas to rearrange his prose as verse, to Eliot's and Auden's enormous influence on the poetry of their adopted nations ("whichever Auden is," Eliot once replied when asked if he were a British or an American poet, "I suppose, I must be the other"); from the impact of Charles Olson and other Black Mountain poets on J. H. Prynne and the Cambridge School, to the widespread influence of Frank O'Hara and Robert Lowell on a diverse range of contemporary British poets. Clark and Ford's study aims to chart some of the currents of these ever-shifting relations. Poets discussed in these essays include John Ashbery, W. H. Auden, Elizabeth Bishop, T. S. Eliot, Mark Ford, Robert Graves, Thom Gunn, Lee Harwood, Geoffrey Hill, Michael Hofmann, Susan Howe, Robert Lowell, and W. B. Yeats. Intro -- Contents -- Introduction "Something We Have That They Don't" by Steve Clark & Mark Ford -- "Why Should Men's Heads Ache?": Yeats and American Modernism by Edna Longley -- "A Package Deal": The Descent of Modernism by Stan Smith -- Writing "Without Roots": Auden, Eliot, and Post-national Poetry by Nicholas Jenkins -- "A Whole Climate of Opinion": Auden's Influence on Bishop by Bonnie Costello -- The American Poetry of Thom Gunn and Geoffrey Hill by Langdon Hammer -- The White Room in the New York Schoolhouse by Tony Lopez -- "Rebellion That Honors the Liturgies": Robert Lowell and Michael Hofmann by Stephen Burt -- Authority, Marginality, England, and Ireland in the Work of Susan Howe by Alan Golding -- "The Circulation of Small Largenesses": Mark Ford and John Ashbery by Helen Vendler -- Bibliography -- Notes on Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
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