Alvarez Generation : Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and ...

by Wootten, William

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Alvarez Generation : Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter, Hardcover by Wootten, William, ISBN 1781381631, ISBN-13 9781781381632, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This literary study examines the work and intertwining lives of the poets of the Alvarez generation, so named for their affinity with the ideas in the introduction to A. Alvarez’s anthology The New Poetry and their identification with the term 'beyond the gentility principle.’ Th centers on one year, 1962, and one poet, Sylvia Plath, and her friendship with A. Alvarez. In addition to looking at connections, similarities, and differences among Plath, Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, and Peter Porter, the study also discusses other poets of the Group in the 1950s-60s. Annotation ©2017 Ringgold, Inc., Portland, OR ()

• ISBN: 9781781381632
• Condition: Fine

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