Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer': On the Poetics of Community (Historicizing Modernism) [Paperback] Latter, Alex; Tonning, Erik and Feldman, Matthew

Latter, Alex; Tonning, Erik [Series Editor]; Feldman, Matthew [Series Editor];

ISBN 10: 1350028428 / ISBN 13: 9781350028425

Published by Bloomsbury Academic, 2017

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer': On the Poetics of Community (Historicizing Modernism) [Paperback] Latter, Alex; Tonning, Erik and Feldman, Matthew
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1350028428
• ISBN 13: 9781350028425
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 14 ounces
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literary Studies

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Synopsis

Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of 'Betjeman's England', the young writers associated with it were catalysed by the example of Donald Allen's The New American Poetry as they sought to establish a revitalised modernist poetics.

Late Modernism and The English Intelligencer gives the first full account of the extraordinary history of this publication, bringing to light extensive new archival material to establish an authoritative contextualisation of its operation and its relationship with post-war British poetry. This material provides compelling new insights into the work of the Intelligencer poets themselves and, more broadly, the continued presence of an international poetic modernism as a vital force in Britain in the second half of the twentieth century.

About the Authors

Matthew Feldman is Emeritus Professor in the Modern History of Ideas, Professional Fellow at the University of York, UK.

Erik Tonning is Professor of English at NLA University College, Norway, and Professor II of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. He is the author of Samuel Beckett's Abstract Drama and Modernism and Christianity, as well as the editor of a number of volumes on modernism.