Author: Rob Jackaman
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Pr
Keywords: studies, british, literature, 1930s, poetry, english, surrealist, course
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 1989-10
List price: $119.95
ISBN-10: 0889469326
ISBN-13: 9780889469327

This study proposes that there has been a revival of surrealist poetry, and traces an uninterrupted thread of development in surrealism throughout 20th-century English poetry.

Author: Rob Jackaman
Publisher: Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
Keywords: english, poetries, contempoarary, breaking, broken, study
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-10
List price: $53.50
ISBN-10: 0838639917
ISBN-13: 9780838639917

Broken English/Breaking English discusses the work of some prominent contemporary poets writing in English. It examines the challenges to a poetic discourse that was claimed in immediately post-Second World War England to be "pure" and "English." The study begins with a scrutiny of what Donald Davie called "Purity of Diction," and offers a contrary view generated earlier by emergent American (literary) English in the work of Walt Whitman and William Carlos Williams. There follows consideration of the clash between Alfred Alvarez labeled "the Gentility Principle" and American-sourced "confessio