Reading twentieth-century poetry : the language of gender and objects / Edward Larrissy

Larrissy, Edward

ISBN 10: 0631153586 / ISBN 13: 9780631153580

Published by Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Basil Blackwell, 1990

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Near fine paperback copy; edges very slightly dulled. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Physical description; x, 209 pages ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references (pages 198-203) and index. Contents; Inheritance : romanticism and the present day -- Ezra Pound -- T.S. Eliot -- William Carlos Williams -- American thing -- Charles Tomlinson -- Ted Hughes -- Sylvia Plath -- Seamus Heaney -- Craig Raine -- Postmodernism : the return of the suppressed. Subjects; Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Criticism and interpretation. Heaney, Seamus Criticism and interpretation. Hughes, Ted Criticism and interpretation. Plath, Sylvia Criticism and interpretation. American poetry 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc. English poetry 20th century History and criticism Theory, etc. 1 Kg.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Reading twentieth-century poetry : the language of gender and objects / Edward Larrissy
• Publisher: Oxford [England] ; Cambridge, Mass. : Basil Blackwell
• Publication Date: 1990
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0631153586
• ISBN 13: 9780631153580
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Weight: 1 kilogram

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Synopsis

The author details and distinguishes how different English, Irish and American poets have interpreted their relationship to romanticism and modernism. What emerges is a survey of how various romantic themes and impulses have evolved through the 19th and 20th centuries. The quick succession with which first God, and then the poet/observer have "disappeared" from notions of poetic truth, to be replaced in the era of Eliot and Pound with sceptical irony and tight-lipped celebration of the "objective", forms the author's background to the modern poetic tradition. Empiricism, alienation and the pecularity of things are themes that characterize the attitudes and voices of poets as diverse as Larkin, Davie, Plath, Heaney and Raine. The book distinguishes between their different approaches to the role of things and perception in poetry, and places this strand alongside detailed considerations of myths, post-modernism and possible future directions for contemporary poetry. The work should appeal to students and teachers of English and poetry, as well as some general readers.