Outcasts from Eden: Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry Since 1945Liverpool University Press, 1997 M01 1 - 322 pages A re-evaluation, in terms of their contributions to the landscape genre, of five important post-war poets: Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, Charles Tomlinson, Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney. |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Such absences | 43 |
narrow but saved | 83 |
The Insistence of Things | 125 |
depraved with life | 159 |
From the older dispensation | 205 |
Conclusion | 269 |
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Outcasts from Eden: Ideas of Landscape in British Poetry Since 1945 Edward Picot No preview available - 1997 |
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