Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity

by Colin E. Nicholson and Colin Nicholson

Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was 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...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719063612
• ISBN13: 9780719063619
• Release Date: October 2009
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.64 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"