Edwardian Poetry (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780198122258)

The poets writing in the first years of the twentieth century have commonly been discussed in isolation. In Edwardian Poetry, Kenneth Millard considers together seven poets--Henry Newbolt, John Masefield, Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas, A.E. Housman, John Davidson, and Rupert Brooke--and argues that their work is worthy of more serious critical attention than it has previously received. Through an analysis of numerous individual poems, Millard isolates certain common concerns: the changing and perhaps fading value of the idea of England, a distrust of the medium of language itself, and a distrust also of the creative imagination. In its reassessment of these poets, the book provides a literary context for their work, finding in it a kind of pre-war modern British poetry distinct from the Modernism of subsequent decades. In establishing a literary context for the poetry of this century's first decade, the book offers an important revision of modern literary history and points towards an alternative line in twentieth-century British poetry that culminates in the work of Philip Larkin.

Author: Kenneth Millard
ISBN-10: 019812225X
ISBN-13: 9780198122258
Publisher: Clarendon Press
Language: English
Published: 01/02/1992
Pages: 208
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.97lbs
Size: 8.70h x 5.80w x 0.80d