Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry

Seditious Things

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Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry

Seditious Things

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This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney's exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.

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Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Year
2017
ISBN
9783319459585
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Criticism
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. A Note on Archives and Sources
  2. Acknowledgements
  3. Contents
  4. Chapter 1: Introduction: ‘Here We All Are to Greet You’
  5. Chapter 2: Books, Devices, Verbal Chicanery, and Cosmological Range
  6. Chapter 3: Strikers with Poems: From Green Cabaret to Black Torch
  7. Chapter 4: Seeing and Being Seen: Serial Poetry and Surveillance, 1970–75
  8. Chapter 5: Into the Dangerous Decade: 1979–82
  9. Chapter 6: Class and Representation: From Wild Knitting to Hellhound Memos
  10. Chapter 7: Pearl on the Law
  11. Chapter 8: Conclusion: Nostalgia for the Future
  12. Bibliography
  13. Index