03501nam 22007453u 450 991046563420332120211011210030.00-19-156727-297866113416261-281-34162-2(CKB)2560000000296001(EBL)422927(OCoLC)608626784(SSID)ssj0000244355(PQKBManifestationID)11923135(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000244355(PQKBWorkID)10168418(PQKB)10012249(StDuBDS)EDZ0000076512(MiAaPQ)EBC422927(EXLCZ)99256000000029600120151123d2007|||| u|| |engur|n|---|||||txtccrSerious Poetry[electronic resource] Form and Authority from Yeats to HillOxford Clarendon20021 online resource (236 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-19-923580-5 0-19-171454-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Contents; 1. 'Rather than words': The End of Authority?; 2. Yeats and Remorse; 3. Yeats's Poetic Structures; 4. Three Critics: T. S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill; 5. One of Us: Eliot, Auden, and Four Quartets; 6. Yeats, Form, and Northern Irish Poetry; 7. Louis MacNeice's Posterity; 8. The Pitch of Dissent: Geoffrey Hill; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; V; W; YPeter McDonald offers a controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures, all of whom are critics as well as poets: W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. <i>Serious Poetry</i> provocatively returns these writers to the elements of difficulty and cultural disagreement where they belong. - ;Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one which ends with the assimilation of successful poets into a media cultureAuthority in literatureEnglish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticismEnglish poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticismHill, Geoffrey -- Criticism and interpretationLiterary form -- History -- 20th centuryYeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretationEnglishHILCCLanguages & LiteraturesHILCCEnglish LiteratureHILCCElectronic books.Authority in literature.English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism.Hill, Geoffrey -- Criticism and interpretation.Literary form -- History -- 20th century.Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation.EnglishLanguages & LiteraturesEnglish Literature821.9109821/.9109McDonald Peter1962-76146AU-PeELAU-PeELAU-PeELBOOK9910465634203321Serious Poetry2465205UNINA