Contemporary British poetry and the city

Contemporary British poetry and the cityAuthor: Peter Barry ISBN: 9780719055942 Publisher: Manchester University Press Year first published: 02 Jan 2001 Pages: 272 Format: Paperback softback Though poets have always written about cities, the commonest critical categories (pastoral poetry, nature poetry, Romantic poetry, Georgian poetry, and so on) have usually stressed the rural, so that poetry can seem irrelevant to a predominantly urban population. This book seeks to redress the balance.

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