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Author McDonald, Peter, 1962-

Title Serious poetry : form and authority from Yeats to Hill / Peter McDonald
Published Oxford : Clarendon Press, ©2002

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Description 1 online resource (225 pages)
Contents 1. R̀ather than words': The End of Authority? -- 2. Yeats and Remorse -- 3. Yeats's Poetic Structures -- 4. Three Critics: T.S. Eliot, Seamus Heaney, Geoffrey Hill -- 5. One of Us: Eliot, Auden, and Four Quartets -- 6. Yeats, Form, and Northern Irish Poetry -- 7. Louis MacNeice's Posterity -- 8. The Pitch of Dissent: Geoffrey Hill
Summary In this history, it is the authority of poetry (and not the media-processed poet) which is at stake in the integrity of poetic form. The book offers a controversial reading of 20th-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures all of whom are critics as well as poets
Notes Originally published: Oxford : Clarendon, 2002. Reprinted 2006, 2007
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939 -- Criticism and interpretation
Hill, Geoffrey -- Criticism and interpretation
SUBJECT Hill, Geoffrey. fast (OCoLC)fst00011380
Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939. fast (OCoLC)fst00029120
Subject English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
English poetry -- Irish authors -- History and criticism
Authority in literature.
Literary form.
Authority in literature.
English poetry.
English poetry -- Irish authors.
Literary form.
English.
Languages & Literatures.
English Literature.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Yeats, W. B. (William Butler), 1865-1939.
Hill, Geoffrey
ISBN 9780199247479
0199247471
1281341622
9781281341624
9780191714542
0191714542