Instabilities in Contemporary British Poetry

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

List of contents

Acknowledgements - Preface - James Fenton's 'narratives': some reflections on Postmodernism - Theatre of Trope: Craig Raine and Christopher Reid - Waiting for the end: absences in the poetry of Michael Hofmann - History to the defeated: Geoffrey Hill's The Mystery of the Charity of Charles P guy - The mastering eye: Douglas Dunn's social perceptions - The civil art: Tom Paulin's representations of Ulster - Seamus Heaney: the free state of image and allusion - Declarations of independence: some response to feminism - Notes - Index

Summary

The author explores the impact on poetic practice in the 1970s and 1980s of recent theoretical developments, offering a criticism of the work of Seamus Heaney and of poets including Michael Hofmann, reassessing life on Mars and providing retrospective surveys of Fleur Adcock and others.

Product details

• Authors: Alan Robinson
• Publisher: Springer Palgrave Macmillan
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.01.1988
• EAN: 9780333467695
• ISBN: 978-0-333-46769-5
• No. of pages: 233
• Dimensions: 138 mm x 13 mm x 216 mm
• Weight: 313 g
• Illustrations: XIII, 233 p.
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies