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Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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Does what is true depend on where you are? or, can we speak of a
British culture which varies gradually over the 600 miles from one
end of the island to the other, with currents gradually mutating
and turning into their opposites as they cross such a distance? Any
account of the matter must rapidly disclose the fact that where
group A proclaims idea X, group B swiftly proclaims X to be untrue.
Assimilation and dissimilation are the exuberant flows which make
the mill of culture turn. The unbalanced local energies which gave
birth to the central horror of possessive individualism, the
Empire, and the State as war-machine, do not sound their
triumphalist self-praises without conjuring up a reaction in favour
of collective values, pacifism, equity, and the languages of the
periphery. Poetry has to offer more than the illusion of being in
the few rooms where a metropolitan elite solemnly engages in the
circularity of authentication. A polemic tour of Scotland, Wales,
and the North of England exposes the possibility that the finest
poets of the last 50 years have lived in the outlands, not
networking and neglecting to acquire linguistic signs of status. We
contemplate the sublime through the works of Sorley Maclean, Glyn
Jones, Colin Simms, and Michael Haslam. But a second look at poetry
in the South jettisons the shallow tricks favoured by High Street
cultural managers to reveal a hidden stratum of intellectually
sophisticated poets, even in Babylon.
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