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"In this bold defense of so-called confessional poetry, Alan Williamson shows us that much of the best writing of the past twenty-five years is about the sense of being or having a self, a knowable personal identity. The difficulties posed by this subject help explain the fertility of contemporary poetic experiment - from the jaggedness of the later work of Robert Lowell to the montage-like methods of John Ashbery, from the visual surrealism of James...
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A 1976 study of the medieval English dream-poem, set against the background of classical and medieval visionary and religious writings and the theory of dreams from classical times down to Freud and Jung. In this first general treatment of one of the most popular kinds of literature in the Middle Ages, Mr Spearing examines many specific poems in some detail and explores the nature of the visionary tradition in which medieval dream-poets felt themselves...
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A psychological study, analyzing the links between Pound's economic theories, his admiration for Mussolini, his pro-fascist and antisemitic propaganda broadcasts from Italy during the war, and his insanity. Ch. 4 (pp. 131-155), "The Antisemitism of the Rome Broadcasts", suggests that prejudice is present to some degree in all human beings and overcoming it involves a moral decision. The very violence of Pound's antisemitic effusions shows that he...
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Lawrence was a novelist in the English tradition and also a prophet who related all his ideas to the restless debate going on in his mind about love and sex. The extremes of his personality and his views have provoked nearly all the contributors in this volume to write far beyond the space allotted to each. Some of these essays will be essential reading to the Lawrence student, whilst the collection as a whole will provide an important introduction...
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