The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry By: Andrew Duncan

Author: Andrew Duncan

How modern is modern? How does the new come to be the surface which makes the personality visible? How does an offset become a peak? One of the key differences in the poetry world is between those who see a stream of innovation over the last 50 years, a source of hope and renewal at each moment, and those who see innovation as self-willed and unnecessary, so that poems in the style of the 50s still “look up to date.” There seems to be a lot of confusion about this issue: this book is an attempt to improve the quality of debate by describing the stylistic innovations since 1960, giving dates to the changes, and fitting them into the horizon of a time – a unique composite of collective ideas, wishes, or projections, evanescent and rich in fine interactions. An ample accumulation of descriptive and comparative material allows us, finally, to detect what is innovative and what is not – and gives us a technical vocabulary with which to describe poems, capturing them as art-historical objects, before or beside aesthetic judgment. Probes into the zone of conservatism allow us to identify it as a form of melancholia, a collective rancour, a thermal death, a distrust of consciousness – a modern disease which thrives on islands. Finally, we stumble into the zone of what isn’t clear yet, or hasn’t happened, in order to flourish the names of poets to whom the future may belong.

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Author:		Andrew Duncan
Title:		The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry
ISBN:		1844711447
Publisher:	Salt Publishing
Year:		2003
Language:	englanti
Genre:		Runot
Format:		PDF+DRM
Link:		https://www.google.com/search?q=1844711447
Description:
A treatment of 40 years of British poetry from the angle of time. We watch the wonderful helplessness of new poetics as it struggles to free itself from the chrysalis of the old. We watch the life-cycle of new ideas as they open up chaos, channel it into permanent form, and age into predictability and disillusion. We realise the strangeness of the past and go in to sample lost sounds and exotic shapes.
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