Serious Poetry Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill

Name: Serious Poetry Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill
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ISBN: 9780199247479

ISBN-10: 0199247471

ISBN-13: 9780199247479

Edition: 2002

Authors: Peter McDonald

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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 culture; it is also, however, another history, one of form and authority, in which certain poets found modes and pitches of resistance to the seeming inevitabilities of their times. In this history, it is the authority of poetry (and not the media-processed poet) which is at stake in the integrity of poetic form. Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill offers a controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures, all of whom are…

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List price: $195.00
Copyright year: 2002
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 8/22/2002
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 234
Size: 5.71" wide x 8.78" long x 0.70" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English




Rather than Words: The End of Authority?



Yeats and Remorse



Yeats's Poetic Structures



Three Critics: Eliot, Heaney, Hill



One of Us: Eliot, Auden, and Four Quartets



Yeats, Form, and Northern Irish Poetry



MacNeice's Posterity



The Pitch of Dissent: Geoffrey Hill


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