Contemporary British Poetry and the City

by Peter Barry and Peter Barry

Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, etc.) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban populati. Explores a range of contemporary poets who visit the 'mean streets' of the contemporary urban scene, seeking the often cacophonous music of what happens here. Poets discussed include: Ken Smith,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0719055946
• ISBN13: 9780719055942
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.6" x 8.5"