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The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott M. Thurston 1st ed. 2009 edition
The Underworld in Twentieth-Century Poetry: From Pound and Eliot to Heaney and Walcott
M. Thurston
While some poets engage their literary forebears to exorcise anxiety and others use Hell to sharpen their cultural critique, most recent poets, including James Merrill, Derek Walcott, Tony Harrison, and Seamus Heaney, have found the Underworld descent to be a useful framework for addressing the claims of history and politics.
216 pages, XI, 216 p.
| Media | Books Paperback Book (Book with soft cover and glued back) |
| Released | January 29, 2010 |
| ISBN13 | 9781349382835 |
| Publishers | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Pages | 216 |
| Dimensions | 216 × 138 × 17 mm · 302 g |
| Language | English |