‘In Different Voices’: Modernism Since the 1960s

Noel-Tod, Jeremy (2013) ‘In Different Voices’: Modernism Since the 1960s. In: The Oxford Handbook of Contemporary British and Irish Poetry. Oxford University Press, Oxford. ISBN 9780199596805

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Abstract

Although the era of modernist poetry is often thought to have ended at the mid-century, its experimental spirit has continued to raise questions about lyric voice in post-war Britain. A history of contemporary innovative practice may be framed by Peter Howarth’s notion of the hundred-year ‘poetry wars’, which began with the attack of poets such as Eliot and Pound on the discursive formalism of Georgian verse. Since the 1960s, poets such as J. H. Prynne and Tom Raworth have looked to the modernist fragmentation of diction and form as an alternative model of intellectual and aesthetic ambition to the prevailing naturalism of Philip Larkin and Ted Hughes. Influenced by American avant-garde poetics, the ‘British Poetry Revival’ of this time established a wide field of experimental writing—sometimes described as ‘late modernism’—which encompasses pastoral and topographical verse, political critique, and postmodern textual otherness.

Item Type:	Book Section
Uncontrolled Keywords:	modernism,poetry,contemporary,experimental,postmodernism,innovative,avant-garde,british,american
Faculty \ School:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature and Creative Writing (former - to 2011) Faculty of Arts and Humanities > School of Literature, Drama and Creative Writing
UEA Research Groups:	Faculty of Arts and Humanities > Research Groups > Modern and Contemporary Writing Research Group
Depositing User:	Katherine Humphries
Date Deposited:	17 Dec 2012 17:04
Last Modified:	11 Nov 2021 02:17
URI:	https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/40603
DOI:	10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199596805.013.006

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