Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity
Colin Nicholson
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paperback. Since the 1940s Edwin Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. This book studies his work. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKS; 2AB; DSBH; DSC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 226 x 163 x 33. Weight in Grams: 2842.
Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of modernity was the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Instinctively at odds with the literary politics of the Pound-Eliot axis that remained influential deep into the twentieth century, Morgan develops instead a radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon metre through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Manchester University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
Manchester, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780719063619
SKU
V9780719063619
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About Colin Nicholson
Colin Nicholson is Professor of Eighteenth Century and Modern Literature at the University of Edinburgh -- .
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