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Record Nr.

UNINA9910466334303321

Autore

Wootten William

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Liverpool : , : Liverpool University Press, , 2015

ISBN

1-78138-489-4

1-78138-760-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (256 p.)

Disciplina

821.91409

Soggetti

English poetry - 20th century - History and criticism

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Preface; PART I; Chapter One: Beginnings: Oxford and Cambridge Poetry in the Early 1950s; Chapter Two: Violent Times: Anti-Movement Poetry in the Mid to Late 1950s; Chapter Three: In Opposite Directions:  A. Alvarez and Thom Gunn ; Chapter Four: Against Gentility; Chapter Five: On Being Serious; Chapter Six: Anthology-Making; Chapter Seven: First Reactions: The Review  Debate and the Initial Response to The New Poetry ; PART II; Chapter Eight: Sylvia Plath ; PART III; Chapter Nine: Going to Extremes; Chapter Ten: 'A Study of Suicide'; PART IV

Chapter Eleven: Against ExtremismChapter Twelve: Costing Seriousness; Chapter Thirteen: 'I Don't Like Dramatizing Myself' ; Chapter Fourteen: Birthday Letters; Chapter Fifteen: Geoffrey Hill's New Poetry; Chapter Sixteen: Children of The New Poetry; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.