Poetry and Repetition - Walt Whitman, Wallace Stevens, John Ashbery

At the same time, the three are engaged in a very interesting relation to each other, a relation readers tend to explain in terms of repetition, by positing Whitman and Stevens as the two alternative 'beginnings' out of which Ashbery emerges. Krystyna Mazur analyses the work of the three poets to discern patterns which may operate across a relatively broad spectrum of examples, as well as to consider the variety of ways in which repetition can structure a poetic text.