British poetry from the 1950s to the 1990s

Gary Day, Brian Docherty (eds)

Palgrave Macmillan - Basingstoke

1997

This collection looks at the developments in British poetry from the Movement until the present. The introduction not only provides a context for these changes but also argues that poetry criticism has been debilitated by the quest for political respectability, a trend which can only be reversed by reconsidering the idea of tradition.