1st Edition
Poetry Against the World Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain
By Magdalena Kay
Copyright 2018
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
200 Pages
by
Routledge
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Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book explores how these two representative poets seek to redress an "age of demolition" through their poetry,... Read more
Introduction: "The mind is a hunter of forms" 1 An Age of Demolition 2 The Trembling Mirror 3 All the Kingdoms of Possibilities 4 When Readings Grow Erratic 5 Celestial Recurrences, Lost Displays 6. Conclusion
Biography
Magdalena Kay is an Associate Professor of English at University of Victoria, Canada.
