Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World WarRodopi, 2002 - Всего страниц: 252 In Misreading England: Poetry and Nationhood Since the Second World War, Raphaël Ingelbien examines how issues of nationhood have affected the works and the reception of several English and Irish poets - Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Geoffrey Hill and Seamus Heaney. This study explores the interactions between post-war English poets and the ways in which they transformed or misread earlier poetic visions of England - Romantic, Georgian, Modernist. It also traces often neglected but crucial links between their troubled poetics of Englishness and Seamus Heaney's poetry of Irish nationhood. This radically intertextual approach takes issue with influential accounts of post-war poetry that have drawn on postcolonialism. Instead of being made to reflect contemporary agendas, the poetics of nationhood are here considered in all their textual and ideological complexity, and restored to the historical, intellectual and literary contexts which postcolonial emphases on identity often play down or simplify. Whereas critics in post-devolution Britain increasingly use texts to debunk or promote specific versions of national identity, this study interrogates the very terms in which the debate has been conducted. Its metacritical analyses expose the contradictions of identity politics, and its intertextual readings help re-draw the map of post-war poetry in Britain and Ireland. |
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... Britain holding out alone , the loss of Empire , the waning of British influence on the international stage , the gradual " failure of economic nerve " make up the well - known ( and sometimes simplified ) background against which post ...
... Britain holding out alone , the loss of Empire , the waning of British influence on the international stage , the gradual " failure of economic nerve " make up the well - known ( and sometimes simplified ) background against which post ...
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... Britain " is one which still surfaces regularly in post - war poetry . See Anima Poetae , ed . Ernest Hartley Coleridge . Boston and New York , 1895 . Philip Larkin , Selected Letters , ed . Anthony Thwaite , London , 1991 , 604 . 14 ...
... Britain " is one which still surfaces regularly in post - war poetry . See Anima Poetae , ed . Ernest Hartley Coleridge . Boston and New York , 1895 . Philip Larkin , Selected Letters , ed . Anthony Thwaite , London , 1991 , 604 . 14 ...
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... of a " Yeatsian big - bang effect of magisterial visionary power " . He adds that " The Whitsun Weddings " is a poem 31 Larkin , Required Writing , 157 . imbued with the communal solidarity of Britain in the 1940s 24 Misreading England.
... of a " Yeatsian big - bang effect of magisterial visionary power " . He adds that " The Whitsun Weddings " is a poem 31 Larkin , Required Writing , 157 . imbued with the communal solidarity of Britain in the 1940s 24 Misreading England.
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... Britain in the 1940s and 1950s ... it draws a moving frame across a landscape of cinemas , cooling towers , scrap - yards and county cricket matches in order to reveal an altered country that is also timeless.32 Given the terms he uses ...
... Britain in the 1940s and 1950s ... it draws a moving frame across a landscape of cinemas , cooling towers , scrap - yards and county cricket matches in order to reveal an altered country that is also timeless.32 Given the terms he uses ...
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... Britain was about to be demoted to the status of a peripheral nation , and the decline of religious feeling accelerated . Four Quartets became a cult text for an embattled conservative elite who sometimes used Eliot's poem to denounce ...
... Britain was about to be demoted to the status of a peripheral nation , and the decline of religious feeling accelerated . Four Quartets became a cult text for an embattled conservative elite who sometimes used Eliot's poem to denounce ...
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Ted Hughes | 73 |
Ted Hughess English Mythologies | 111 |
A Map of Misreadings | 145 |
Larkin and his Misreaders | 189 |
Conclusion | 229 |
Index | 245 |
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Стр. 61 - INELUCTABLE modality of the visible: at least that if no more, thought through my eyes. Signatures of all things I am here to read, seaspawn and seawrack, the nearing tide, that rusty boot.
Стр. 139 - War, but that it is a consequence of the same causes which brought about the Civil War; that we must seek the causes in Europe, not in England alone; and for what these causes were, we may dig and dig until we get to a depth at which words and concepts...
Стр. 23 - A serious house on serious earth it is, In whose blent air all our compulsions meet, Are recognised, and robed as destinies. And that much never can be obsolete, Since someone will forever be surprising A hunger in himself to be more serious, And gravitating with it to this ground, Which, he once heard, was proper to grow wise in, If only that so many dead lie round.
Стр. 76 - Rebuffed the big wind. My heart in hiding Stirred for a bird,— the achieve of, the mastery of the thing! Brute beauty and valour and act, oh, air, pride, plume, here Buckle! AND the fire that breaks from thee then, a billion Times told lovelier, more dangerous, O my chevalier! No wonder of it: sheer plod makes plough down sillion Shine, and blue-bleak embers, ah my dear, Fall, gall themselves, and gash gold-vermilion. Pied Beauty Glory be to God for dappled things— For skies of couple-colour...
Стр. 50 - ... REQUIEM FOR THE PLANTAGENET KINGS For whom the possessed sea littered, on both shores, Ruinous arms; being fired, and for good, To sound the constitution of just wars, Men, in their eloquent fashion, understood. Relieved of soul, the dropping-back of dust, Their usage, pride, admitted within doors; At home, under caved chantries, set in trust, With well-dressed alabaster and proved spurs They lie; they lie; secure in the decay Of blood, blood-marks, crowns hacked and coveted, Before the scouring...
Стр. 66 - And immediately Rather than words comes the thought of high windows: The sun-comprehending glass, And beyond it, the deep blue air, that shows Nothing, and is nowhere, and is endless.
Стр. 61 - Mark this farther and remember. The end comes suddenly. Enter that antechamber of birth where the studious are assembled and note their faces. Nothing, as it seems, there of rash or violent. Quietude of custody rather, befitting their station in that house, the vigilant watch of shepherds and of angels about a crib in Bethlehem of Juda long ago.
Стр. 38 - On sand and scrub the dead men wriggle in their dowdy clothes. They are mimes who express silence and futile aims enacting this prone and motionless struggle at a queer angle to the scenery, crawling on the boards of the stage like walls, deaf to the one who opens his mouth and calls silently.