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Centre and periphery in modern British poetry / Andrew Duncan.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Duncan, Andrew, 1956 November 26- author.
- Series:
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 41.
- Liverpool English texts and studies ; 41
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- English poetry--20th century--History and criticism.
- English poetry.
- Regionalism in literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xi, 255 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Liverpool : Liverpool University Press, 2005.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Does what is true depend on where you are? or, can we speak of a British culture which varies gradually over the 600 miles from one end of the island to the other, with currents gradually mutating and turning into their opposites as they cross such a distance? In Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry Andrew Duncan (a published poet himself) identifies distinctive traditions in three regions of the British Isles providing a polemic tour of Scotland, Wales, and the North of England while revealing the struggle for 'cultural assets'. The book exposes the possibility that the finest poets of the last 50 years have lived in the outlands, not networking and neglecting to acquire linguistic signs of status. Centre and Periphery in Modern British Poetry provides insightful accounts of major poets such as Sorley Maclean, Glyn Jones, Colin Simms, and Michael Haslam.
- Contents:
- The spatial distribution of cultural assets
- The state of poetry
- The structure of space
- Centre and periphery
- Oral versus literate
- Poetry of the north-western periphery
- 'A native ardour of their minds which brooked no master' : poetry in the north of England
- Celticity cumulative and in decline : poetry in the west of Scotland
- Putting a people in its place : Anglo-Welsh poetry 1937-1979
- Conclusion : Balkanisation : the sound of confusion.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Jul 2017).
- ISBN:
- 9781781386309
- 1781386307
- 9781846312793
- 1846312795
- OCLC:
- 476209463
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