This is the only monograph to consider the entire thirty-year career, publications, and influence of Britain's first female poet laureate. It outlines her impact on trends in contemporary poetry and establishes what we mean by ‘Duffyesque’ concerns and techniques. Discussions of her writing and activities prove how she has championed the relevance of poetry to all areas of contemporary culture and to the life of every human being. Individual chapters discuss the lyrics of ‘love, loss, and longing’; the socially motivated poems about the 1980s; the female-centred volumes and poems; the relationship between poetry and public life; and poetry and childhood and written for children. The book should whet the appetite of readers who know little of Duffy’s work to find out more, while providing students and scholars with an in-depth analysis of the poems in their contexts. It draws on a wide range of critical works and includes an extensive list of further reading.
Format: Hardback
CONTRIBUTORS: Jane Dowson
EAN: 9781137415622
COUNTRY: United Kingdom
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WEIGHT: 462 g
HEIGHT: 210 cm
PUBLISHED BY: Palgrave Macmillan
DATE PUBLISHED: 2016-01-04
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GENRE: LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Modern / General
WIDTH: 148 cm
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Book Themes:
Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literary studies: poetry and poets
Jane Dowson is Reader inTwentieth-Century Literature at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. She has published broadly on women poets, including Women, Modernism and British Poetry 1910-39, A Cambridge History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry (co-authored),The Cambridge Companion toTwentieth-Century British and Irish Women’s Poetry and Women’s Poetry of the 1930s.
