The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s
The Course of English Surrealist Poetry Since the 1930s

Author: Rob Jackaman

Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 344

ISBN-13: 9780889469327

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This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.

The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English
The Oxford Companion to Modern Poetry in English

Author: Jeremy Noel-Tod

Publisher:

Published: 2013-05-23

Total Pages: 727

ISBN-13: 0199640254

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This impressive volume provides over 1,700 biographical entries on poets writing in English from 1910 to the present day, including T. S. Eliot, Dylan Thomas, and Carol Ann Duffy. Authoritative and accessible, it is a must-have for students of English and creative writing, as well as for anyone with an interest in poetry.

Earthlight
Earthlight

Author: André Breton

Publisher:

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781931243407

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Best known as the mastermind of the Surrealist movement and as the author of the dream-logic fiction Nadja, Breton was also a brilliant poet. Written to friends and fellow Surrealists such as Pablo Picasso, Andre Derain and Max Ernst, the poems in this collection date from 1919-1936 spanning Breton's involvement with Dadaism and his founding and development of Surrealism. The range of poetic forms, from the early collage compositions to the Five Dreams' of Earthlight and the incantatory love poem 'Free Union', reveals Breton's compositional methods and styles.'

The Absence of Myth
The Absence of Myth

Author: Georges Bataille

Publisher: Verso Books

Published: 2020-05-05

Total Pages: 314

ISBN-13: 1789602653

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For Bataille, the absence of myth had itself become the myth of the modern age. In a world that had lost the secret of its cohesion, Bataille saw surrealism as both a symptom and a beginning of an attempt to address this loss. His writings on this theme are the result of a profound reflection in the wake of World War Two. The Absence of Myth is the most incisive study yet made of surrealism, insisting on its importance as a cultural and social phenomenon with far-reaching consequences. Clarifying Bataille's links with the surrealist movement, and throwing revealing light on his complex and greatly misunderstood relationship with Andre Breton, The Absence of Myth shows Bataille to be a much more radical figure than his postmodernist devotees would have us believe: a man who continually tried to extend Marxist social theory; a pessimistic thinker, but one as far removed from nihilism as can be.