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Edwin Morgan - Inventions of Modernity (Paperback)
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Edwin Morgan - Inventions of Modernity (Paperback)
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Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and "Inventions of
Modernity" is the first book-length study of his work. Since the
1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the
conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating
instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime
to the hilarious. Instinctively at odds with the literary politics
of the Pound-Eliot axis that remained influential deep into the
twentieth century, Morgan develops instead a radical and
libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon
metre through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay
poetry, science fiction verse and prize-winning translations into
both English and Scots from numerous languages. Because his
inventive and often transgressive practices were ahead of their
time his poetry now seems to elaborate many of the theories that
have followed him into print. From his early attraction to
Apocalype poetry, to his continuing engagement with the liberating
potential of Surrealist forms, and including his more recent work
for the theatre, this book traces the various movements that Morgan
has used (and refused) over a long life of writing. It will be of
interest to students, teachers and academic researchers involved
with strategies of reading, with cultural studies, with the
politics of literary history and with gay and transgressive
writing.
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