Colin Falck
Ashgate
Hardback
268
2003
This critical history of twentieth-century American and British poetry is also a study of what the author sees as the decline of that poetry during the century's last three decades. Colin Falck's argument is based in the ideas of the English and German Romantic movement and his book will be of interest to both contemporary poets and literary theorists as well as to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.Falck makes reference to poems and extracts from such poets as Hardy Yeats Eliot and Stevens (and some of their nineteenth-century predecessors) all the way through to such recently acclaimed poets as Jorie Graham and Hugo Williams. He calls for a ?middlebrow revival? in response to the ?highbrow deviation? of modernism and ends with an ambitious claim for poetry as an ?inscription of reality? as part of an ?aesthetic fundamentalism? which may be the true religion of the future.
Ashgate
Hardback
268
2003
This critical history of twentieth-century American and British poetry is also a study of what the author sees as the decline of that poetry during the century's last three decades. Colin Falck's argument is based in the ideas of the English and German Romantic movement and his book will be of interest to both contemporary poets and literary theorists as well as to scholars of twentieth-century poetry.Falck makes reference to poems and extracts from such poets as Hardy Yeats Eliot and Stevens (and some of their nineteenth-century predecessors) all the way through to such recently acclaimed poets as Jorie Graham and Hugo Williams. He calls for a ?middlebrow revival? in response to the ?highbrow deviation? of modernism and ends with an ambitious claim for poetry as an ?inscription of reality? as part of an ?aesthetic fundamentalism? which may be the true religion of the future.