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Zusatztext a fine demonstration that literary criticism may itself acquire some of the virtues of poetry, and nowhere more compellingly than in its astonishing first chapter ... To read this book is to have one's preconceptions challenged on almost every page. ... It is a book that restores one's faith in literary criticism. Informationen zum Autor Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic literature, especially the work of Percy Bysshe Shelley, and on an array of British, Irish, and American twentieth- and twenty-first century poets. He received the Eric Gregory Award in 1983 for his poetry and a Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors in 1990. He is a Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University (launched 2006). Klappentext Michael O'Neill's impressive study provides sensitive close readings of poets publishing since 1900, including Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney, Muldoon, Mahon, Hill, and Hughes. He shows that Romantic poetry is a dominant presence in their poems. The book will greatly interest those who enjoy the exploration of poetry's attempt to deal with major human and cultural issues. Zusammenfassung Michael O'Neill's impressive study provides sensitive close readings of poets publishing since 1900, including Yeats, Eliot, Stevens, Bishop, Heaney, Muldoon, Mahon, Hill, and Hughes. He shows that Romantic poetry is a dominant presence in their poems. The book will greatly interest those who enjoy the exploration of poetry's attempt to deal with major human and cultural issues. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: 'Original Response' 1: 'The All-Sustaining Air': Variations on a Romantic Metaphor 2: 'A Vision of Reality': Mid-to-Late Yeats 3: 'Dialectic Ways': T. S. Eliot and Counter-Romanticism 4: 'The Guts of the Living': Auden and Spender in the 1930s 5: 'The Death of Satan': Stevens's `Esthétique du Mal', Evil, and the Romantic Imagination 6: 'Shining in Modest Glory': Post-Romantic Strains in Kavanagh, Heaney, Mahon, and Carson 7: : 'Just Another Twist in the Plot': Paul Muldoon's Madoc 8: 'Deep Shocks of Recognition' and 'Gutted' Romanticism: Geoffrey Hill and Roy Fisher ...
