Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry

✍ Scribed by Alan Robinson (auth.)

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
Year: 1988
Tongue: English
Leaves: 245
Edition: 1
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
James Fenton’s ‘Narratives’: Some Reflections on Postmodernism....Pages 1-15
Theatre of Trope: Craig Raine and Christopher Reid....Pages 16-48
Waiting for the End: Absences in the Poetry of Michael Hofmann....Pages 49-61
History to the Defeated:Geoffrey Hill’s The Mystery of the Charity of Charles Péguy....Pages 62-81
The Mastering Eye:Douglas Dunn’s Social Perceptions....Pages 82-99
The Civil Art: Tom Paulin’s Representations of Ulster....Pages 100-122
Seamus Heaney: the Free State of Image and Allusion....Pages 123-160
Declarations of Independence: Some Responses to Feminism....Pages 161-208
Back Matter....Pages 209-233

✦ Subjects

Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature

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