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The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter
William Wootten
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Description for The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter
Hardcover. The biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. Exploration of the generation of poets anthologized in A. Alvarez's classic The New Poetry - Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 532.
This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez’s classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.
William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and ... Read more
This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez’s classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.
William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Liverpool University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Liverpool, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781781381632
SKU
V9781781381632
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Ref
99-73
About William Wootten
William Wootten is a critic, poet and literary journalist. His other books include Reading Walter de la Mare (the annotated selected poems) and the poetry collection You Have a Visitor. He is a lecturer in English literature at the University of Bristol.
Reviews for The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter
'A well-researched, gracefully-written and important book about a formative period in British and Irish poetry. Wootten has established himself as a fine critic.' Patrick McGuinness 'The Alvarez Generation is an illuminating, provocative and important book... Though briefer, it is as significant as Blake Morrison’s The Movement.' Sean O'Brien 'Wootten's account of the emergence and persistence of these ... Read more