The Liverpool Scene
Author: Edward Lucie-Smith
Publisher:
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 108
ISBN-13:
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The Scottish Sixties
Author: Eleano Bell
Publisher: Rodopi
Published: 2013-09-01
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9401209804
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAlthough a number of publications have appeared in recent years marking the importance of the ‘swinging sixties’, many tend to be personally reflective in nature and London-centric in their coverage. By contrast, The Scottish Sixties: Reading, Rebellion, Revolution? addresses this misrepresentation and in so doing fills a gap in both Scottish and British literary and cultural studies. Through a series of academic analyses based on archival records, ephemera and work produced during the 1960s, this volume focuses uniquely on Scotland. In its concern with some of the key figures of Scottish cultural life, the book considers amongst other topics the implications of censorship, the role of little magazines in shaping cultural debates, the radical nature of much Scottish literature of the time, developments in the avant-garde and the role of experiment in theatre, film, TV, fine art and music.
British Literature in Transition, 1960-1980: Flower Power
Author: Catherine Mary McLoughlin
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2019
Total Pages: 407
ISBN-13: 1107129575
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume traces transitions in British literature from 1960 to 1980, illuminating a diverse range of authors, texts, genres and movements. It considers innovations in form, emergent identities, changes in attitudes, preoccupations and in the mind itself, local and regional developments, and shifts within the oeuvres of individual authors.
The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Poetry
Author: Lisa Chalykoff
Publisher: Broadview Press
Published: 2013-08-09
Total Pages: 587
ISBN-13: 1554811791
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDesigned for courses taught at the introductory level in Canadian universities and colleges, this new anthology provides a rich selection of literary texts. In each genre the anthology includes a vibrant mix of classic and contemporary works. Each work is accompanied by an author biography and by explanatory notes, and each genre is prefaced by a substantial introduction. Pedagogically current and uncommon in its breadth of representation, The Broadview Introduction to Literature invites students into the world of literary study in a truly distinctive way. The Broadview Introduction to Literature: Poetry includes a broad range of both canonical authors and important but less-widely-known poets, and the poems are diverse in form, subject matter, and geographical and linguistic origin. Poems in translation from languages other than English are included with the original language text in facing page format.
The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010
Author: Edward Larrissy
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-12-17
Total Pages: 540
ISBN-13: 1316462587
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945–2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical and scholarly guide, this Companion offers not only new readings of a wide range of poets but a detailed account of the contexts in which their verse was written and received. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry.
The Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010
Author: Eric Falci
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2015-11-12
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 1316425177
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Cambridge Introduction to British Poetry, 1945–2010 provides a broad overview of an important body of poetry from England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland from the postwar period through to the twenty-first century. It offers a comprehensive view of the historical context surrounding the poetry and provides in-depth readings of many of the period's central poets. British poetry after 1945 has been given much less attention than both earlier British and American poetry, as well as postwar American poetry. There are very few single-author studies that present the entirety of the period's poetry. This book is unique for the comprehensive richness with which it presents the historical and literary-historical scene, as well as for its close-up focus on a wide range of major poets and poems.
The Columbia History of British Poetry
Author: Carl R. Woodring
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2007-09-07
Total Pages: 764
ISBN-13: 9780585041551
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Columbia Anthology of British Poetry brings together the most remarkable verse written in the British Isles over the course of the past twelve centuries, offering the greatest diversity of poetic voices in any anthology of its kind. From Shakespeare's memorable sonnets to Keats's haunting odes to T.S. Eliot's mediations on the conditions of modern life, the collection contains many of the best-loved treasures of British poetry. Longer and much-celebrated poems that rarely find their way into anthologies-including Pope's "Rape of the Lock" and Coleridge's "Rime of the Ancient Mariner"-claim a place in this collection. Queen Elizabeth I, Anne Killigrew, Aphra Behn, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, and Felicia Hemans are among dozens of women writers renowned in their own day and now restored to their rightful prominence. Scottish, Welsh, and Irish poets often excluded from anthologies of British poetry are here as well, including such extraordinary voices as Lady Grisell Baillie, Robert Burns, Hugh MacDiarmid, and Seamus Heaney. The finest contemporary poets are fully represented also, from Thom Gunn to Eavan Boland. The result is an amazingly rich and wide-ranging conversation among British poets that transcends the boundaries of time and place. Carl Woodring and James Shapiro, the team scholars who edited The Columbia History of British Poetry, have written incisive introductions to the careers of the poets, making this the most accessible and comprehensive anthology of British verse in print. Covering the new and the ancient, the classic and the rediscovered, this generous volume reimagines the horizons of British poetry.
The Liverpool Scene: English Poetry in the Sixties
Author: Bernardino Nera
Publisher: GRIN Verlag
Published: 2015-08-27
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13: 3668036616
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDocument from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Pedagogy, Literature Studies, , course: Teaching contemporary English Poetry, language: English, abstract: The work "The Liverpool Scene: English Poetry in the Sixties" is intended for both university and high school teachers and students, as a specific guide towards some particular cultural trends of English poetry in the Sixties with a special reference to the artistic scene which flourished within the city of Liverpool in that period, and saw the local poet: Adrian Henri, Roger McGough e Brian Patten as major protagonists.During the same years, Liverpool was also a very creative and artistic centre since The Beatles were getting under way there and their music soon became international and fostered a world-wide youth cultural movement. Never before had poetry been read outside academy, thus being read in public for the first time just like it had been in the remote past of the Anglo-Saxon Bards. The local poets also experimented the fusion of poetry with other artistic forms and expressions in order to create new contexts and dimensions for a more global art. Here the choice of poems presented, is suggested by our need to highlight all those innovative elements which Liverpool poetry expressed that time within the whole English cultural background. The social themes introduced, had a particular relavance in those years and mirrored disquieting socoal problems which, unfortunately, have so far remained dramatically unsolved. This textbook also allows teachers and students to take up and develop an in-depth course on poetry as a literary genre with its peculiar features, through teaching/learning activities of comprehension of poems, text analysis at a phonological, lexical, stylistic, semantic and morphosyntactic levels.
The Cambridge Companion to the Twentieth-Century English Novel
Author: Robert L. Caserio
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2009-04-30
Total Pages: 299
ISBN-13: 1139828339
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe twentieth-century English novel encompasses a vast body of work, and one of the most important and most widely read genres of literature. Balancing close readings of particular novels with a comprehensive survey of the last century of published fiction, this Companion introduces readers to more than a hundred major and minor novelists. It demonstrates continuities in novel-writing that bridge the century's pre- and post-War halves and presents leading critical ideas about English fiction's themes and forms. The essays examine the endurance of modernist style throughout the century, the role of nationality and the contested role of the English language in all its forms, and the relationships between realism and other fictional modes: fantasy, romance, science fiction. Students, scholars and readers will find this Companion an indispensable guide to the history of the English novel.
The Oxford English Literary History: Volume 12: The Last of England?
Author: Randall Stevenson
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Published: 2005-11-10
Total Pages: 646
ISBN-13: 9780191588846
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEnglish Literature in the 1960s soon threw off its post-war weariness and the tepid influences of the previous decade. New voices, new visions, and new commitments profoundly reshaped writing during the 60s, and throughout the rest of the century. Drama thrived on its rapidly rebuilt foundations. New freedoms of style and form revitalised fiction. Poetry, too, gradually recovered the variety and inventiveness of earlier years. As well as comprehensively charting these changes in the literary field, Randall Stevenson persuasively pinpoints their origins in the historical, social, and intellectual pressures of the times. Literary developments are revealingly related to the wider evolution and profound changes in English experience in the late twentieth-century to shadows of war and loss of empire; declining influences of class; shifting relations between the genders; emergent minority and counter-cultures; and the broadening democratization of contemporary life in general. Analyses of the rise of literary theory, of publishing and the book trade, and of the pervasive influences of modernism and postmodernism contribute further to an impressively thorough, insightful description of writing in the later twentieth-century a literary period Stevenson shows to be far more imaginative and exciting than has yet been recognised. Lucid, accessible, and engaging, this volume of the Oxford English Literary History presents a unique illumination of its age - one we have lived through, but are only just beginning to understand. The first full account of its period, it will set the agenda for discussion of late twentieth-century literature for many years to come.
