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The Alvarez generation : Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter /

This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez's classic antho...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wootten, William (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2020.
Edición:Paperback edition.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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