Modernist Legacies

Lang Abigail (1) , David Nowell-Smith (2)

1 LARCA UMR 8225 - Laboratoire de Recherche sur les Cultures Anglophones
2 UEA - University of East Anglia [Norwich]

The first collection of essays dedicated to experimental practice in contemporary British poetry, Modernist Legacies provides an overview of the most notable trends in the past 50 years. Contributors discuss a wide range of poets including Caroline Bergvall and Barry MacSweeney, showing these poets' connections with their Modernist predecessors.

Mots clés: Literary History; British and Irish Literature; Poetry and Poetics; Twentieth-Century Literature

Domaines: Littératures

Lang Abigail, David Nowell-Smith (Dir.). Modernist Legacies: Trends and Faultlines in British Poetry Today. Palgrave Macmillan US, 2015, Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics, Rachel Blau du Plessis, 978-1-137-51223-9. ⟨10.1057/9781137488756⟩. ⟨hal-01417770⟩