The poetry of saying : British poetry and its discontents, 1950-2000
Robert Sheppard (Author)
The Poetry of Saying presents the history and social development of alternative forms of British poetry, still little examined or dismissed, set against the context of the development of the Movement Orthodoxy, those writers who followed and attenuated the tradition of Philip Larkin, even as Larkin?s cultural capital fell. Ranging from the quiet work of Lee Harwood to the avant-gardism of Bob Cobbing, from the major works of Roy Fisher to the still developing sonic and semantic experiments of Maggie O?Sullivan, and covering a number of other writers in their historical context, this work is th
eBook, English, 2005
Liverpool University Press, Liverpool, 2005