The Failure Of Conservatism In Modern British Poetry (salt Studies In Contemporary Poetry S)

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. The Failure of Conservatism in Modern British Poetry Introduction; or, anxiety be... 11 chapter one 16 Versions of the Chronology o... 16 chapter two 33 Form, Time, Fashion 33 chapter three 55 Poverty of Desire: Poetry in... 55 chapter four 85 Blowing Your Mind: Immediacy... 85 chapter five 148 From the Counter-Culture to ... 148 chapter six 219 The Gothic Strain in Seventi... 219 chapter seven 238 The 1980s: Neo-conservatism ... 238 chapter eight 299 An era of rising property va... 299 chapter nine 325 Poetry in the 1990s 325 Afterword 346 Bibliography 348 Index 352 The,Failure,of,Conservatism,in,Modern,British,Poetry Describes 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.