Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry

by Alan Robinson

Book Overview

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333464974
• ISBN13: 9780333464977
• Release Date: August 1988
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 233 Pages
• Weight: 1.02 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"