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Serious Poetry - Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (Paperback)
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Serious Poetry - Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill (Paperback)
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Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk
about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and
Ireland is one which ends with the assimilation of successful poets
into a media culture; it is also, however, another history, one of
form and authority, in which certain poets found modes and pitches
of resistance to the seeming inevitabilities of their times. In
this history, it is the authority of poetry (and not the
media-processed poet) which is at stake in the integrity of poetic
form.
Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill offers a
controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry
centred on six figures, all of whom are critics as well as poets:
W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Seamus
Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. Yeats's centrality to twentieth-century
poetry - and the problem many poets and critics had, or still have,
with that centrality - is a major focus of the book. Serious Poetry
argues that it is in the strengths, possibilities, perplexities,
and certainties of the poetic form that poetry's authority in a
distrustful cultural climate remains most seriously alive.
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