{"product_id":"the-alvarez-generation-william-wootten-9781781381632","title":"The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter","description":"This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez's classic anthology \u003cem\u003eThe New Poetry\u003c\/em\u003e, take poetry 'Beyond the Gentility Principle'. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWilliam Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. \u003cem\u003eThe Alvarez Generation \u003c\/em\u003eis an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a 'new seriousness' was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Wootten\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1781381631\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781781381632\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/01\/2015\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.10lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.50h x 6.40w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Wootten\u003c\/strong\u003e is a literary journalist, writing for the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, the \u003cem\u003eTimes Literary Supplement \u003c\/em\u003eand the \u003cem\u003eGuardian\u003c\/em\u003e. He is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"William Wootten","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44077300351231,"sku":"9781781381632","price":39.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_504babf2-92c9-41d0-99e7-3395a4e9997c.jpg?v=1685469254","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/the-alvarez-generation-william-wootten-9781781381632","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}