1st Edition
Double Lyric Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry
By Merle E. Brown
Copyright 1980
256 Pages
by
Routledge
256 Pages
by
Routledge
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Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson – and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of ‘double-lyrics’, poems which have, according to the author ‘become two persons, two ways of expressing and attending critically in dramatic divisive conflict.’ The nature and significance of... Read more
1.Divisiveness in Recent English Poetry 2. Flesh of Abnegation: The Poems of Geoffrey Hill 3. Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Funeral Music’ 4. Poetic Omissions in Geoffrey Hill’s Most Recent Sequences 5. Larkin and His Audience 6. Stress in Silkin’s Poetry and the Healing Emptiness of America 7. Inner Community in Thom Gunn’s Misanthropos 8. Intuition vs. Perception: On Charles Tomlins’s Under the Moon’s Reign 9. The Authentic Duplicity of Thom Gunn’s Recent Poetry 10. The Idea of Communal Creativity in F. R. Leavis’ Recent Criticism
Biography
Merle E. Brown who died in 1978 was Professor of English at Denison University and the University of Iowa.Â
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