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Edwardian Poetry

Edwardian Poetry

Millard, Kenneth

Hardcover

Series: Oxford English Monographs

Literary CriticismGeneral Poetry

ISBN10: 019812225X
ISBN13: 9780198122258
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Published: Jan 2 1992
Pages: 208
Weight: 0.97
Height: 0.80 Width: 5.80 Depth: 8.70
Language: English
The poets writing in the first years of the twentieth century have commonly been discussed in isolation. In Edwardian Poetry, Kenneth Millard considers together seven poets--Henry Newbolt, John Masefield, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, A.E. Housman, John Davidson, and Rupert Brooke--and argues that their work is worthy of more serious critical attention than it has previously received. Through an analysis of numerous individual poems, Millard isolates certain common concerns: the changing and perhaps fading value of the idea of England, a distrust of the medium of language itself, and a distrust also of the creative imagination. In its reassessment of these poets, the book provides a literary context for their work, finding in it a kind of pre-war modern British poetry distinct from the Modernism of subsequent decades. In establishing a literary context for the poetry of this century's first decade, the book offers an important revision of modern literary history and points towards an alternative line in twentieth-century British poetry that culminates in the work of Philip Larkin.

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