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Serious poetry form and authority from Yeats to Hill

Peter McDonald offers a controversial reading of twentieth-century British and Irish poetry centred on six figures, all of whom are critics as well as poets: W.B. Yeats, T.S. Eliot, W.H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Seamus Heaney, and Geoffrey Hill. & i & Serious Poetry & /i & provocatively returns these writers to the elements of difficulty and cultural disagreement where they belong. - ;Do we want to read poetry, or just like having a few poets to talk about? The history of poetry in twentieth-century Britain and Ireland is one which ends with the assimilation of successful poets into a media culture.

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