Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780582233508 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 216 str.

Neil Roberts; John H. Roverts

Opis

This study of post-war poetry in English looks at how poetry has become more and more like the novel, and the reasons for this change. The text examines the narrative change in poetry through individual studies of 12 major English-language poets including Derek Walcott and Ted Hughes.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

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).