“You’re the inspiration”. Tradition and predecessors of Frank O’Hara.

There would be no Frank O’Hara without modernism. The New York School having O’Hara as the prominent figure in the center, was certainly the continuation of long lasting phenomena and revolution in the poetry starting with French symbolism, Poundian imagism, T.S. Eliot and american poets of the twenties and thirties. From all this creation and as the heirloom of it, the…