Narrative and Voice in Postwar Poetry

by Neil Roberts

Book Overview

Poetry in English since the Second World War has produced a number of highly original narrative works, as diverse as Derek Walcott's Omeros, Ted Hughes' Gaudete and Anne Stevenson's Correspondences. At the same time, poetry in general has been permeated by narrative features, particularly those linguistic characteristics that Mikhail Bakhtin considered peculiar to the novel, and which he termed "dialogic". This book examines the narrative and dialogic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 058223350X
• ISBN13: 9780582233508
• Release Date: March 1999
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 0.56 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.4" x 8.4"