Andrew Young: Priest, Poet and Naturalist: A Reassessment - Softcover

Omrod, Richard

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0718895134 ISBN 13: 9780718895136

Publisher: Lutterworth Press, 2018

Synopsis

It is the central contention of this book that Andrew John Young (1885-1971) is still seriously under-valued amongst twentieth-century poets, principally because he has been over-anthologised - and by implication, dismissed - as yet another 'nature' poet of the Georgian ilk. A re-assessment is long overdue. Omrod argues, by way of both biography and critical analysis, that Young is a great poet, a modern metaphysical, a poet's poet, whose idiolect is distinctive and whose 'individual talent' both links to yet subtly changes literary 'tradition.'

Table of Contents

INTRODUCTION

PART 1. The Early Poet & The Priest:
CHAPTER 1. The Boy & His Background (1885-1902)
CHAPTER 2. Student Days (1903-1911)
CHAPTER 3. Career and Marriage: Early Years (1912-1920)

PART 2. The Later Poet & Priest:
CHAPTER 4. The Move South (1920-1938)
CHAPTER 5. New Directions (1938-1959)
CHAPTER 6. Retirement & Last Years (1959-1971)
CHAPTER 7. “Out of the World & Back”: (1952 & 1958)
CHAPTER 8. A Literary Life: (1910-1937); (1938-1971)

PART 3. The Naturalist & Topographer (1945-1967):

CHAPTER 9. A Prospect of Flowers, 1945; A Retrospect of Flowers, 1950; A Prospect of Britain, 1956; The Poet & The Landscape, 1962; The New Poly-Olbion, 1967; Young’s prose personas

PART 4. Reassessment
CHAPTER 10. Old and New Assessments

Acknowledgements
Bibliography

About this edition

• Publisher: Lutterworth Press
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 0718895134
• ISBN 13: 9780718895136
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 214