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

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Exploration of the generation of poets anthologized in A. Alvarez's classic The new poetry - Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Wootten, William (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Gunn, Thom > Criticism and interpretation.
Hill, Geoffrey > Criticism and interpretation.
Hughes, Ted > Criticism and interpretation.
Plath, Sylvia > Criticism and interpretation.
Porter, Peter > Criticism and interpretation.
Gunn, Thom
Hill, Geoffrey
Hughes, Ted
Plath, Sylvia
Porter, Peter
1900-1999
English poetry > 20th century > History and criticism.
Poésie anglaise > 20e siècle > Histoire et critique.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY > Literary.
English poetry
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Beginnings: Oxford and Cambridge poetry in the early 1950s
  • Violent times: anti-movement poetry in the mid to late 1950s
  • In opposite directions: A. Alvarez and Thom Gunn
  • Against gentility
  • On being serious
  • Anthology-making
  • First reactions: the review debate and the initial response to the new poetry
  • Sylvia Plath
  • Going to extremes
  • 'A study of suicide'
  • Against extremism
  • Costing seriousness
  • 'I don't like dramatizing myself'
  • Birthday letters
  • Geoffrey Hill's new poetry
  • Children of the new poetry.

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