Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry

Neil Roberts is a Professor in the Department of English Literature, at the University of Sheffield. His previous publications include George Eliot- Her Beliefs and Her Art (1975), Ted Hughes- A Critical Study (1981), The Lover, The Dreamer and The World- The Poetry of Peter Redgrove (1994), and Meredith and the Novel (1997).

Introduction; Chapter One: Art and Populism: Larkin from the Margins; Chapter Two: Constructs for the Inarticulate: The Late Poems of Sylvia Plath; Chapter Three: Crow in its Time: Trickster Mythology and Black Comedy; Chapter Four: Hughes, Narrative and Lyric: an Analysis of Gaudete; Chapter Five: Against Confessionalism: Anne Stevenson’s Correspondences; Chapter Six: Utterance and Resistance: Geoffrey Hill; Chapter Seven: ‘The Mulatto of Style’: Derek Walcott and Hybridity; Chapter Eight: Les Murray and the Vernacular Republic; Chapter Nine: Language, Nationality and Gender: Seamus Heaney and an English Reader; Chapter Ten: Peter Redgrove: Composition as Transaction; Chapter Eleven: Tony Harrison: Author and Subject in The School of Eloquence and v.; Chapter Twelve: ‘Tother keeps chaingin is VOICE’: Heteroglossia in Peter Reading; Chapter Thirteen: Carol Ann Duffy: Outsideness and Nostalgia