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Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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
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
