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British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s : politics and art

Title: British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s : politics and art / edited by Gary Day and Brian Docherty.
Publication: New York : St. Martin's Press, 1997.

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Description

xi, 284 pages; 23 cm

Subject

Bibliography (note)

Contents

1. Introduction: Poetry, Politics and Tradition / Gary Day -- 2. Basil Bunting: Briggflatts / Dennis Brown -- 3. 'Never Such Innocence Again': the Poetry of Philip Larkin / Gary Day -- 4. Poetic Subjects: Tony Harrison and Peter Reading / Neil Roberts -- 5. Salvaged from the Ruins: Ken Smith's Constellations / Stan Smith -- 6. Dance of Being: the Poetry of Peter Redgrove / Neil Roberts -- 7. Seamus Heaney: From Revivalism to Postmodernism / Alistair Davies -- 8. 'Some Sweet Disorder' - the Poetry of Subversion: Paul Muldoon, Tom Paulin and Medbh McGuckian / Elmer Andrews -- 9. The Gaelic Renaissance: Sorley MacLean and Derick Thomson / Christopher Whyte -- 10. Edwin Morgan: Messages and Transformations / Roderick Watson -- 11. 'Half of My Seeing': the English Poetry of Iain Crichton Smith / Colin Milton -- 12. Vernon Watkins and R.S. Thomas / Dennis Brown -- 13. Anthologies of Women's Poetry: Canon-Breakers; Canon-Makers / Jane Dowson --
14. Women Poets and 'Women's Poetry': Fleur Adcock, Gillian Clarke and Carol Rumens / Lyn Pykett -- 15. They Say, They Say, They Say: Some New Voices of the Nineties / Michael Faherty.

ISBN

0312172508 (cloth)

LCCN

96044311

OCLC

ocm35701176

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries