Overview
- Considers the poetic significance of radical political struggle for MacSweeney and his contemporaries in post-war Britain
- Offers an original contribution by weaving together archival literary history and the material analysis of MacSweeney’s literary production
- Sheds light on the economic, social, and historical struggles of post-war Britain through close readings of Barry MacSweeney’s political poetry
Part of the book series: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics (MPCC)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book examines the literary impact of famed British poet, Barry MacSweeney, who worked at the forefront of poetic discovery in post-war Britain. Agitated equally by politics and the possibilities of artistic experimentation, Barry MacSweeney was ridiculed in the press, his literary reputation only recovering towards the end of his life which was cut short by alcoholism. With close readings of MacSweeney alongside his contemporaries, precursors, and influences, including J.H. Prynne, Shelley, Jack Spicer, and Sylvia Plath, Luke Roberts offers a fresh introduction to the field of modern poetry. Richly detailed with archival and bibliographic research, this book recovers the social and political context of MacSweeney’s exciting, challenging, and controversial impact on modern and contemporary poetry.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Luke Roberts is a Lecturer in Modern Poetry at King’s College London, UK. His writing on English and American poetry has appeared in Textual Practice, Chicago Review, PN Review and in edited collections such as Modernist Legacies (2014) and Accelerated Times (2016). In 2012, he co-edited Certain Prose of the English Intelligencer. His own poetry has been published widely.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Barry MacSweeney and the Politics of Post-War British Poetry
Book Subtitle: Seditious Things
Authors: Luke Roberts
Series Title: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45958-5
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-45957-8Published: 29 March 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-83407-8Published: 08 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-45958-5Published: 18 March 2017
Series ISSN: 2634-6052
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6060
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 241
Topics: British and Irish Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature