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Table of contents (12 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Part I
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Front Matter
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Part III
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Front Matter
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Part IV
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About this book
This book is a survey of a main strand in English poetry over the last two hundred years. This strand is characterized by ordinary everyday language, a meditative and somewhat melancholic tone, and settings in landscape and nature. Some of the main poets treated are Wordsworth, Tennyson, Arnold, Hardy, Frost, Edward Thomas, Housman, Macneice and Larkin. Some of the most important questions that arise are: why these features go together; why the line is essentially male; how far recent theoretical criticism is applicable to such poetry; and why some of the important poets are not English.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The English Line
Book Subtitle: Poetry of the Unpoetic from Wordsworth to Larkin
Authors: John Powell Ward
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-21481-5
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Literature & Performing Arts Collection, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: John Powell Ward 1991
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 217
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Poetry and Poetics