Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book explores how these two representative poets seek to redress an age of demolition through their poetry, and how their audiences react to the types of redress they propose.
Pages
188
Format
ebook
Publisher
Routledge
Release
October 31, 2018
ISBN
1351002554
ISBN 13
9781351002554
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain
Poetry Against the World: Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinson in Contemporary Britain brings together two major poets, who espouse opposite aesthetic ambitions, yet are both taken as paragons of Englishness, in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. This book explores how these two representative poets seek to redress an age of demolition through their poetry, and how their audiences react to the types of redress they propose.