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Carol Ann Duffy: Poet for Our Times
Jane Dowson
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Description for Carol Ann Duffy: Poet for Our Times
Hardback. Num Pages: 253 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 220 x 20. Weight in Grams: 472.
This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by `Duffyesque' concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of `love, loss, and longing'; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and ... Read more
This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by `Duffyesque' concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of `love, loss, and longing'; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781137415622
SKU
V9781137415622
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Ref
99-15
About Jane Dowson
Jane Dowson is Reader in Twentieth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has published broadly on women poets, including Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910-39, A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (co-authored), The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century British and Irish Women's Poetry and Women's Poetry of the 1930s.
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