British Poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s: Politics and Art

by Gary Day (Editor), Brian Docherty (Series Editor), Brian Docherty (Series Editor), Gary Day (Editor)

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  Paperback
  1997

  $52.17

  This collection looks at the developments in British poetry from the Movement until the present. The introduction not only provides a context for these changes but also argues that poetry criticism has been debilitated by the quest for political respectability, a trend which can only be reversed by reconsidering the idea of tradition.