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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255064803321

Autore

Roberts Luke

Titolo

Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry : Seditious Things / / by Luke Roberts

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2017

ISBN

9783319459585

3319459589

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (XII, 241 p.)

Collana

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, , 2634-6060

Disciplina

809.41

Soggetti

European literature

Poetry

Literature, Modern - 20th century

European Literature

Poetry and Poetics

Twentieth-Century Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

1. 'here we all are to greet you' -- 2. Books, Devices, Verbal Chicanery, and Cosmological Range -- 3. Strikers with Poems: from Green Cabaret to Black Torch -- 4. Seeing and Being Seen: Serial Poetry and Surveillance, 1970-1975 -- 5. Into the Dangerous Decade: 1979-1982 -- 6. Class and Representation: Wild Knitting to Hellhound Memos -- 7. Pearl on the Law -- 8. Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Future -- Bibliographies -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival



and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney's exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.