Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Poet on the Periphery

AvGareth Farmer

Inbunden, Engelska, 2017

Del i serien Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

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This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics.

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Utgivningsdatum:2017-10-24
Mått:148 x 210 x 18 mm
Vikt:423 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Antal sidor:219
Upplaga:17001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319627212

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Gareth Farmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bedfordshire, UK and a poet. He has written essays on a range of modern and contemporary experimental writers and on literary and critical theory. He is the Senior Academic Consultant to the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive at Girton College Library, Cambridge.

Innehållsförteckning

1 Introduction – Poet on the Periphery.- 2 The Reluctant Radical: Identi-kit and Uncollected Early Poems.- 3 Cambridge, Verbal Hiccups and Iambics: twelve academic questions and Language-Games.- 4 Poetic Artifice and the Defence of Form.- 5 Simplicity and Complexity in the Quest for Style.- 6 Control and Excess in the Quest for ‘Writing Straight’.- 7 Coda – The Risks of ‘freedom, truth and skill’.