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The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter Hardcover - 2015 - 1st Edition

by Wootten, William

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Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2015. 1st edition. Hardback. Black cloth with gold lettering to spine. Octavo. [xvi prelims] 238 pages. Very Good in Good jacket which has rubbed faces and several small dents on its front, along the the spine fold.
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  • Title The Alvarez Generation: Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter
  • Author Wootten, William
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1st
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 224
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Liverpool University Press, Liverpool
  • Date 2015
  • Features Bibliography, Index
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 2279
  • ISBN 9781781381632 / 1781381631
  • Weight 1.1 lbs (0.50 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.5 x 6.4 x 0.8 in (24.13 x 16.26 x 2.03 cm)
  • Themes
    • Aspects (Academic): Historical
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Cultural Region: British
  • Library of Congress subjects English poetry, English poetry - 20th century - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2015374922
  • Dewey Decimal Code 821.914

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This book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez's classic anthology The New Poetry, take poetry 'Beyond the Gentility Principle'. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter.

William Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. The Alvarez Generation is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a 'new seriousness' was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide.

A new Afterword contains important biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for the study of Plath's work more generally.

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William Wootten is a literary journalist, writing for the London Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the Guardian. He is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bristol.

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