Author: Veronica Forrest-ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Cordelia, Or, A Poem Should Not Mean, But be
Author: Veronica Forrest-ThomsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : English poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 34
Book Description
Veronica Forrest-Thompson and Language Poetry
Author: Alison MarkPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 0746309120
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 173
Book Description
This study provides the first sustained consideration of Forrest-Thomson's poetry, and of the relationships between her work and that of the language writers.
Veronica Forrest-Thomson
Author: Gareth FarmerPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319627228
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 226
Book Description
This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson’s relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson’s writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.
A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry
Author: Nigel AldermanPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118646940
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events
Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry
Author: Michael ThurstonPublisher: John Wiley & Sons
ISBN: 1118619811
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century. Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and selected poems volumes Pays explicit attention to how to read the poems, focusing on language and form and the institutional conditions of literary possibility in which poets worked Includes poets of all types and styles from throughout the post-war period, including canonical and mainstream poets alongside experimental poets, women, and poets of color
The Alvarez Generation
Author: William WoottenPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1800857985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264
Book Description
This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez’s classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a ‘new seriousness’ was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide. A new Afterword contains important biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for the study of Plath’s work more generally.
Modernist Legacies
Author: David Nowell SmithPublisher: Springer
ISBN: 1137488751
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors.
Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010
Author: David KennedyPublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN: 1781385777
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Women’s Experimental Poetry in Britain 1970–2010 presents the history and current state of a critically neglected, significant body of contemporary writing and places it within the wider social and political contexts of the period.
Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism
Author: Samuel SolomonPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1350063878
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
What is the political potential of poetry in the contemporary era? Exploring an often overlooked history of Marxist-Feminist poetics in post-war Britain – including such poets as Denise Riley, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Wendy Mulford and Nat Raha – this book confronts this central question to debates about the value of humanities education today. Lyric Pedagogy and Marxist-Feminism demonstrates how ideas of social reproduction have been central both to the forms of post-1945 British poetry and the educational institutions where poetry is overwhelmingly encountered and produced. Combining new archival research with close readings of key poets of the period, the book charts the interrelated crises both of poetry itself and literary education more widely. Paradoxically, the very marginalisation of poetry in contemporary culture serves to offer the form new opportunities as an agent of social transformation.
Encyclopedia of the New York School Poets
Author: Terence DiggoryPublisher: Infobase Learning
ISBN: 1438140665
Category : American poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 1921
Book Description
Presents an alphabetical reference guide detailing the lives and works of poets associated with the New York Schools of the early twentieth century.