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| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Crawford, Robert, 1959- Identifying poets. Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, c1993 (OCoLC)623331847 |
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| Named Person: | Somhairle MacGill-Eain; Les A Murray; Robert Frost; Hugh MacDiarmid |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Robert Crawford |
| ISBN: | 074860409X 9780748604098 |
| OCLC Number: | 29703965 |
| Description: | viii, 191 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction: Bakhtin and the identifying poet -- Robert Frosts -- MacDiarmid and his makers -- Somhairle MacGill-Eain/Sorley Maclean -- Les Murray: Shaping an Australian voice -- John Ashbery: A dialogue across time -- Frank Kuppner's dynastic songs -- Home. |
| Responsibility: | Robert Crawford. |
Abstract:
This groundbreaking study examines the way twentieth-century poets identify themselves with particular territories, constructing and reconstructing territorial identities.
From America to Australia, and from Scotland and England to the Caribbean, it looks in detail at the poetry of six international poets, Robert Frost, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Les Murray, John Ashbery and Frank Kuppner, as well as discussing the Scots work of Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan, and the English-language work of Peter Reading, Judith Wright and Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott. Identifying Poets argues that the major theme of contemporary poetry is home and that poets who identify themselves with a 'home territory' are crucial and dominant in twentieth-century poetry.
It is an original and perceptive study of modern international writing.
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Related Subjects:(23)
- English poetry -- Scottish authors -- History and criticism.
- Scottish poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- American poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
- MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, -- 1911-1996 -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Murray, Les A., -- 1938- -- Criticism and interpretation.
- Identity (Psychology) in literature.
- Poetry -- Psychological aspects.
- Regionalism in literature.
- United States -- In literature.
- Scotland -- In literature.
- Home in literature.
- Self in literature.
- English poetry
- Engels.
- Amerikaans.
- Gedichten.
- Frost, Robert.
- MacDiarmid, Hugh.
- Heimat (Motiv)
- Identität.
- Lyrik.
- Englisch.
- USA.
