Dlb 40: Poets of Great Britain and Ireland Since 1960 (Part 1: A-L Part 2: M-Z)

by Vincent Sherry

In contrast to the poets of The Movement whose traditional forms and conventional themes reigned from 1945-1960, a new popular poetry rode in with the 1960s, devised by poets who spoke to a mass audience, rather than an elite group. The demands of this audience, however, tended to impose consumerism rather than critical standards, and much of the poetry has aged like the fashion and slang of the era. The new poets who followed in the 1970s and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810317184
• ISBN13: 9780810317185
• Release Date: August 1985
• Publisher: Gale Cengage
• Length: 702 Pages