Contemporary British Poetry: Essays in Theory and Criticism

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• Contemporary British Poetry *
• Contemporary British Poetry *
• Contents *
• Preface vii
• Introduction 1
• Chapter One - Donald Davie and the Failure of Englishness 17
• Chapter Two - The Poetry of Roy Fisher 35
• Chapter Three - Poets of a Various Art: J. H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier 63
• Chapter Four - Poetry and the Women's Movement in Postwar Britain 81
• Chapter Five - Ian Hamilton Finlay and Concrete Poetry 113
• Chapter Six - From Myth into History: the Later Poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes 143
• Chapter Seven - Poetry of the Committed Individual: Jon Silkin, Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hill, and the Poets of Postwar Leeds 175
• Chapter Eight - Upon the Slippery Place; Or, in the Shit: Geoffrey Hill's Writing and the Failures of Postmodern Memory 221
• Chapter Nine - Look for the Doing Words: Carol Ann Duffy and Questions of Convention 245
• Chapter Ten - Postfeminist Poetry?: "One More Word for Balls" 269
• Chapter Eleven - Bass History is A-Moving: Black Men's Poetry in Britain 293

• Contemporary British Poetry *
• Contemporary British Poetry *
• Contents *
• Preface vii
• Introduction 1
• Chapter One - Donald Davie and the Failure of Englishness 17
• Chapter Two - The Poetry of Roy Fisher 35
• Chapter Three - Poets of a Various Art: J. H. Prynne, Veronica Forrest-Thomson, Andrew Crozier 63
• Chapter Four - Poetry and the Women's Movement in Postwar Britain 81
• Chapter Five - Ian Hamilton Finlay and Concrete Poetry 113
• Chapter Six - From Myth into History: the Later Poetry of Thom Gunn and Ted Hughes 143
• Chapter Seven - Poetry of the Committed Individual: Jon Silkin, Tony Harrison, Geoffrey Hill, and the Poets of Postwar Leeds 175
• Chapter Eight - Upon the Slippery Place; Or, in the Shit: Geoffrey Hill's Writing and the Failures of Postmodern Memory 221
• Chapter Nine - Look for the Doing Words: Carol Ann Duffy and Questions of Convention 245
• Chapter Ten - Postfeminist Poetry?: "One More Word for Balls" 269
• Chapter Eleven - Bass History is A-Moving: Black Men's Poetry in Britain 293
• Chapter Twelve - Accent and Identity: Women Poets of Many Parts 315
• Chapter Thirteen - From the Lost Ground: Liz Lochhead, Douglas Dunn, and Contemporary Scottish Poetry 343
• Chapter Fourteen - Wales and the Cultural Politics of Identity: Gillian Clarke, Robert Minhinnick, and Jeremy Hooker 373
• Notes on Contributors 397
• Acknowledgments 401
• Index 415