Research Catalog

Title

Holocaust poetry : awkward poetics in the work of Sylvia Plath, Geoffrey Hill, Tony Harrison and Ted Hughes / Antony Rowland.

Author

Rowland, Antony

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c2005.

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Description

vii, 192 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

Under the umbrella term ' Holocaust poetry', this book argues that distinctions need to be made between the writing of Holocaust survivors and those who were not involved in the events of 1933 to 1945. This study focuses on the post-Holocaust writers.

Subject

• Hughes, Ted, 1930-1998 > Criticism and interpretation
• Harrison, Tony, 1937- > Criticism and interpretation
• Hill, Geoffrey > Criticism and interpretation
• Plath, Sylvia > Criticism and interpretation
• Plath, Sylvia > Critique et interprétation
• Hill, Geoffrey > Critique et interprétation
• Harrison, Tony, 1937- > Critique et interprétation
• Hughes, Ted, 1930- > Critique et interprétation
• 1900-1999
• English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism
• Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945), in literature
• Poésie anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique
• Holocauste, 1939-1945 > Poésie > Histoire et critique
• Holocaust
• Gedichten
• Engels
• Amerikaans

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Poetry

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. [179]-186) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Camp poetics and Holocaust icons in the poetry of Sylvia Plath -- 'Beauty ... remains "a brief gasp between one cliché and another"' : awkward poetics in Geoffrey Hill's The triumph of love -- 'There's something for everyone in a myth' : Auschwitz-Birkenau and the classics in Tony Harrison's Prometheus -- Ted Hughes, peephole metaphysics, and the poetics of extremity.

ISBN

• 0748615539 (pbk)
• 9780748615537 (pbk)
• 074862256X (hbk.)
• 9780748622566 (hbk.)

OCLC

• 57692578
• SCSB-11624766

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library