Double Lyric

Divisiveness and Communal Creativity in Recent English Poetry
1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-041-06919-5
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Buch, Englisch, 256 Seiten, Format (B × H): 138 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 630 g

Reihe: Routledge Revivals

Originally published posthumously in 1980, this book centres on 5 British poets – Geoffrey Hill, Philip Larkin, Jon Silkin, Thom Gunn and Charles Tomlinson – and on the emergence in postwar British poetry of ‘double-lyrics’, poems which have, according to the author ‘become two persons, two ways of expressing and attending critically in dramatic divisive conflict.’ The nature and significance of the double lyric is first demonstrated by close readings of Silkin’s Defence, Tomlinson’s Prometheus and Hill’s In Piam Memoriam. Further chapters focus on the impressive poems which have arisen out of the stress between ideological commitment and imaginative realization in Silkin’s work, the conflict between intuition and perception in the poetry of Tomlinson, and the split between the texture of Gunn’s language and the non-verbal experience evoked in his poems. Finally, Merle Brown presents the last phase of F. R. Leavis’ collaborative literary and cultural criticism as strikingly close to the poetic achievements of Hill, Silkin, Tomlinson and Gunn.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate Advanced

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Merle E.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Lyrik und Dichter
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1.Divisiveness in Recent English Poetry 2. Flesh of Abnegation: The Poems of Geoffrey Hill 3. Geoffrey Hill’s ‘Funeral Music’ 4. Poetic Omissions in Geoffrey Hill’s Most Recent Sequences 5. Larkin and His Audience 6. Stress in Silkin’s Poetry and the Healing Emptiness of America 7. Inner Community in Thom Gunn’s Misanthropos 8. Intuition vs. Perception: On Charles Tomlins’s Under the Moon’s Reign 9. The Authentic Duplicity of Thom Gunn’s Recent Poetry 10. The Idea of Communal Creativity in F. R. Leavis’ Recent Criticism

Über Autor(innen)

Merle E. Brown who died in 1978 was Professor of English at Denison University and the University of Iowa.