Twentieth-Century Poetrypresents detailed studies of the pressures and processes involved when twentieth-century poets have composed poems. It not only deals with the forces working upon them, but also the aesthetic, political, and human pressures that they may deploy when negotiating with these forces.
1. Selves and Situations
2. Pound's Psychological Hour
3. Bunting's Emigrant Ballads
4. MacNeice and Self-Sufficiency
5. Dependence in W. S. Graham
6. Elizabeth Bishop's Art
7. Bishop's Crusoe
8. Allen Curnow Travels
9. Tomlinson in the Golfo dei Poeti
10. 'Absolute Circumstance': Mairi MacInnes
11. Tom Raworth and Pop Art
12. Roy Fisher's Last Things
Detailed and informed, one senses the author is prepared to stand squarely by his words. -
Modern Philology