LEADER 03382nam 22004932 450 001 9910798288403321 005 20170811033844.0 010 $a1-78138-489-4 010 $a1-78138-760-5 035 $a(CKB)3710000000623337 035 $a(EBL)4616272 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4616272 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001372835 035 $a(UkCbUP)CR9781781387603 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4616272 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr11240942 035 $a(OCoLC)953456155 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000623337 100 $a20170307d2015|||| uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Alvarez generation $eThom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter /$fWilliam Wootten$b[electronic resource] 210 1$aLiverpool :$cLiverpool University Press,$d2015. 215 $a1 online resource (xvi, 228 pages) $cdigital, PDF file(s) 300 $aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 11 Aug 2017). 311 $a1-78138-163-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover; 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 327 $aChapter 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 330 $aThis 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 anthology The New Poetry, take poetry 'Beyond the Gentility Principle'. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a 'new seriousness' was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide. 606 $aEnglish poetry$y20th century$xHistory and criticism 608 $aCriticism, interpretation, etc.$2fast 615 0$aEnglish poetry$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a821.91409 700 $aWootten$b William$01505563 801 0$bUkCbUP 801 1$bUkCbUP 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910798288403321 996 $aThe Alvarez generation$93735184 997 $aUNINA