Since the 1940s Edwin Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. This book studies his work. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2842. . 2009. Paperback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

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Title: Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0719063612
ISBN 13: 9780719063619
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: New

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Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Instinctively at odds with the literary politics of the Pound-Eliot axis that remained influential deep into the twentieth century, Morgan develops instead a radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon metre through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse and prize-winning translations into both English and Scots from numerous languages.

This authoritative volume is of interest to students, teachers and academic researchers involved with strategies of reading, with cultural studies, with the politics of literary history and with gay and transgressive writing.

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Colin Nicholson is Professor of Eighteenth Century and Modern Literature at the University of Edinburgh

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