Poetry & Responsibility

by Neil Corcoran

Book Overview

Neil Corcoran's new book considers the kinds of responsibility which some exemplary modern lyric poetry takes on, or to which it makes itself subject - social, cultural, political, aesthetic and personal. It treats its theme in British, Irish and American poets and in some influential foreign-language poets available in influential English translations.

The book discusses the poetry of the First World War and the Cold War in such poets as Owen,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1800348770
• ISBN13: 9781800348776
• Release Date: January 2021
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 218 Pages