Poetry of the Thirties

Author: Robin Skelton
Publisher: Penguin UK
ISBN: 0141921455
Category : Poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 352

Book Description
Auden, Day, Lewis, Spender, MacNeice and the other key poets of the Thirties were children of the First World War, obsessed by war and by communalism, by the class-struggle and a passionate belief in poets as people whose actions are as publically important as their poems.For them, the Spanish Civil War epitomized the mood of the times, as their symbolic obsessions were transmuted into tragic reality. But from within their strongly defined unity of ideals, an astonishingly varied body of poetry emerged. Robin Skelton has arranged the poetry to make an illuminating ‘critical essay’ of the period, and in his introduction he brilliantly probes the moods and mores of an intensely troubled and creative decade.

Irish Poetry of the 1930s

Author: Alan A. Gillis
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 228

Book Description
"The 1930s have never really been considered as an epoch within Irish literature, even though the Thirties form one of the most dominant and fascinating contexts in modern British literature. Alan Gillis shows that during this time Irish poets confronted political pressures and aesthetic dilemmas which frequently overlapped with those faced by 'The Auden Generation'. In doing so, he not only offers a provocative rereading of Irish history, but also advances powerful arguments about the way poetry is interpreted and understood." "Gillis redefines our understanding of a frequently neglected period and challenges received notions of both Irish literature and poetic modernism. Irish Poetry of the 1930s gives detailed and vital readings of the major poets of the decade, including original and exciting analyses of Samuel Beckett, Patrick Kavanagh, Louis MacNeice, and W.B. Yeats."--Résumé de l'éditeur.

Women's Poetry of the 1930s: A Critical Anthology

Author: Jane Dowson
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134790546
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 216

Book Description
Where were the women of the so-called `Auden Generation'?During this era of rapidly changing gender roles,social values and world politics,women produced a rich variety of poetry.But until now their work has largely been lost or ignored;in Women's Poetry of the 1930s Jane Dowson finally redresses the balance and recovers women's place in the literary history of the interwar years.This comprehensive and beautifully edited collection includes: *Previously uncollected poems by authors such as Winifred Holtby and Naomi Mitchison *Poems which are now out of print,such as those by Vita Sackville-West and Frances Cornford *Poems previously neglected by poets including Ann Ridler and Sylvia Townsend Warner *An extensive critical introduction and individual biographies of each poet Poetry lovers,students and scholars alike will find Women's Poetry of the 1930s an invaluable resource and a collection to treasure.

The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

Author: Rob Jackaman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780889469327
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 344

Book Description
This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.

Modernism from Right to Left

Author: Alan Filreis
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521453844
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 412

Book Description
A study of relations between American radicalism and modernism in the 1930s, focusing on Wallace Stevens.

The Thirties Poets

Author: Jem Poster
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 120

Book Description

Left of Poetry

Author: Sarah Ehlers
Publisher: UNC Press Books
ISBN: 1469651297
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 309

Book Description
In this incisive study, Sarah Ehlers returns to the Depression-era United States in order to unsettle longstanding ideas about poetry and emerging approaches to poetics. By bringing to light a range of archival materials and theories about poetry that emerged on the 1930s left, Ehlers reimagines the historical formation of modern poetics. Offering new and challenging readings of prominent figures such as Langston Hughes, Muriel Rukeyser, and Jacques Roumain, and uncovering the contributions of lesser-known writers such as Genevieve Taggard and Martha Millet, Ehlers illuminates an aesthetically and geographically diverse matrix of schools and movements. Resisting the dismissal of thirties left writing as mere propaganda, the book reveals how communist-affiliated poets experimented with poetic modes—such as lyric and documentary—and genres, including songs, ballads, and nursery rhymes, in ways that challenged existing frameworks for understanding the relationships among poetic form, political commitment, and historical transformation. As Ehlers shows, Depression left movements and their international connections are crucial for understanding both the history of modern poetry and the role of poetic thought in conceptualizing historical change.

Autumn Journal

Author: Louis MacNeice
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571177769
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 83

Book Description
Written between August and December 1938, this poem is a record of MacNeice's emotional and intellectual experience during those months. The trivia of everyday living is set against events in the world outside - the settlement in Munich and slow defeat in Spain.

The Strings are False

Author: Louis MacNeice
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780571239429
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 288

Book Description
The Strings are False is Louis MacNeice's unfinished autobiography. Written when MacNeice was a young man it was only discovered and published after his death in 1963. Described by Geoffrey Grigson in the Guardian as 'the best thing Louis MacNeice ever wrote in prose' The Strings are False is being reissued in MacNeice's centenary year with a new preface by Derek Mahon.

The Twentieth Century in Poetry

Author: Peter Childs
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134696604
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 225

Book Description
Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on: * the Georgians * First World War poetry * Eliot * Yeats * the thirties * post-war poetry * contemporary anthologies * women's poetry * Northern Irish and black British poets It builds a narrative not of poetry in the twentieth century, but of the twentieth century in poetry.