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The Alvarez Generation - Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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The Alvarez Generation - Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter (Paperback, 2nd Revised edition)
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This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its
consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets
appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets
such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the
introduction to A. Alvarez's classic anthology The New Poetry, take
poetry 'Beyond the Gentility Principle'. This was the generation of
Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter
Porter. William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in
common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and
differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work.
The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when
contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has
now lost and when a 'new seriousness' was to become closely linked
to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most
controversially of all, suicide. A new Afterword contains important
biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its
implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for
the study of Plath's work more generally.
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