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ISBN-10: 1586540548
ISBN-13: 9781586540548
Publisher: Story Line Press
Publish Date: 06/20/2019
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.60" H

Transatlantic Connections

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Overview

In the 1950s, a group of brash young British writers coalesced into a controversial poetic and critical movement known simply as the Movement. In the 1980s, a group of brash young American writers coalesced into an equally controversial poetic and critical movement known as New Formalism. Especially since the British coalition known as The Movement was short-lived, surviving less than a decade, few people could have predicted that it would have an impact that was both far-reaching and long-lasting. This groundbreaking new study shows that the Movement lives on, in a very real way, in New Formalist poetics and poetry.

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This remarkable book offers a series of insights into a significant–and, until now, largely neglected–transatlantic poetic connection. Theresa Welford offers a convincing demonstration of just how much the New Formalist poets owe to their predecessors in the Movement–and just how intricate and influential were the personal and textual exchanges between them. Her argument is finely nuanced, acknowledging both the similarities and the differences between the American and British groups. Her analyses of individual poems are subtle, sensitive and rigorous; and her argument places the texts and poets she discusses in exactly the right historical and cultural contexts. This is a groundbreaking book about an international poetic dialogue; it will be a vital and indispensable resource for anyone interested in the recent past, present and future of poetry.
–Richard J. Gray, University of Essex Emeritus Professor and author of critical books including A History of American Literature, American Poetry of the Twentieth Century, A Web of Words: The Great Dialogue of Southern Literature, and After the Fall: American Literature Since 9/11.

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ISBN-10: 1586540548
ISBN-13: 9781586540548
Publisher: Story Line Press
Publish Date: 06/20/2019
Dimensions: 8.50" L, 5.50" W, 0.60" H
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