Serious Poetry: Form and Authority from Yeats to Hill

by Peter McDonald

Book Overview

Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one which ends with the assimilation of successful poets into a media culture; it is also, however, another history, one of form and authority, in which certain poets found modes and pitches of resistance to the seeming inevitabilities of their times. In this history, it is the authority of poetry (and not the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199235805
• ISBN13: 9780199235803
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.6" x 8.5"