There is some connexion
(I like the way the English spell it
They're so clever about some things
Probably smarter generally than we are
Although there is supposed to be something
We have that they don''t--'don't ask me
What it is. . . .)
--John Ashbery, "Tenth Symphony" 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...