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Andrew Duncan

The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry

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Failure starts from the key misrepresentation of orthodox poetry criticism, that the conservative is also the new, and sets out to define the whole British complex of refusing to innovate. In the attempt to set up publicly accountable criteria for what counts as new, the book goes through the whole period from the 1950s to the mid-1990s, identifying what the stylistic innovations were at each point. Naturally, in such a culturally rich era, not every significant poet or work can be mentioned. We present the 1950s as an era of conservative reaction and occupation of the institutions by a new stratum, whose self-regard is locked up with ve… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-84861-498-7
  • EAN: 9781848614987
  • Produktnummer: 20955925
  • Verlag: Summertime Pub
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 374 S.
  • Masse: H22.9 cm x B15.2 cm x D2.2 cm 574 g
  • Auflage: 2. A.
  • Gewicht: 574
  • Sonstiges: Ab 13 - 21 J.

Über den Autor


Andrew Duncan was born in 1956 and brought up in the Midlands. He worked as a labourer (in England and Germany) after leaving school, and subsequently as a project planner with a telecoms manufacturer (1978-87), and as a programmer for the Stock Exchange (1988-91). He now works in the Civil Service and is based in Nottingham. He has been publishing poetry since his Cambridge days in the late 70s, including Threads of Iron, In Five Eyes, Anxiety upon Entering a Room, and Savage Survivals. He is one of the editors of Angel Exhaust and has translated a lot of modern German poetry; his own work appeared in German translation in 2016. He has published a good deal of literary criticism in recent years, and has five critical volumes from Shearsman Books.

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