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The ironic harvest : English poetry in the twentieth century / Geoffrey Thurley.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Thurley, Geoffrey.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Irony in literature.
- Irony.
- Literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- vii, 215 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : St. Martin's Press, 1974.
- Contents:
- The intellectualist position
- F.R. Leavis and the English existential tradition
- 'Partial fires': Empson's poetry
- W.H. Auden: the image as instance
- A kind of scapegoat: a retrospect on Stephen Spender
- David Gascoyne: phenomena of zero
- Dylan Thomas: Merlin as sponger
- The legacy of Auden: the poetry of Roy Fuller, Philip Larkin and Peter Porter
- Beyond positive values: Ted Hughes
- The new poetry in England.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.
- OCLC:
- 1331202
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