The Alvarez Generation
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-78138-163-2 (ISBN)
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.
A new Afterword contains important biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for the study of Plath’s work more generally.
William Wootten is a critic, poet and literary journalist. His other books include Reading Walter de la Mare (the annotated selected poems) and the poetry collection You Have a Visitor. He is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Bristol.
Preface
Part I
1. Beginnings: Oxford and Cambridge Poetry in the early 1950s
2. ‘A Violent Time’: Anti-Movement Poetry in the mid to late 1950s
3. In Opposite Directions: A. Alvarez and Thom Gunn
4. Against Gentility
5. On Being Serious
6. Anthology Making
7. First Reactions: 'The Review' Debate and the Initial Response to 'The New Poetry'
Part II
8. Sylvia Plath
Part III
9. Going to Extremes
10. ‘A Study of Suicide’
Part IV
11. ‘Against Extremism’
12. Costing Seriousness
13. ‘I Don’t Like Dramatising Myself’: anti-confessionalism in the later poetry of Thom Gunn
14. 'Birthday Letters'
15. Geoffrey Hill’s New Poetry
16. Children of 'The New Poetry'
Index
Verlagsort | Liverpool |
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Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 163 x 239 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
ISBN-10 | 1-78138-163-1 / 1781381631 |
ISBN-13 | 978-1-78138-163-2 / 9781781381632 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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