{"product_id":"9781789627947-alvarez-generation-2e","title":"The Alvarez Generation","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eThom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath, and Peter Porter\u003cbr\u003eDuring the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A.\u003cbr\u003eThis book is the biography of a taste in poetry and its consequences. During the 1950s and 1960s, a generation of poets appeared who would eschew the restrained manner of Movement poets such as Philip Larkin, a generation who would, in the words of the introduction to A. Alvarez’s classic anthology \u003ci\u003eThe New Poetry\u003c\/i\u003e, take poetry ‘Beyond the Gentility Principle’. This was the generation of Thom Gunn, Geoffrey Hill, Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Peter Porter. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Wootten explores what these five poets shared in common, their connections, critical reception, rivalries and differences, and locates what was new and valuable in their work. \u003ci\u003eThe Alvarez Generation\u003c\/i\u003e is an important re-evaluation of a time when contemporary poetry and its criticism had a cultural weight it has now lost and when a ‘new seriousness’ was to become closely linked to questions of violence, psychic unbalance and, most controversially of all, suicide. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA new Afterword contains important biographical information on Sylvia Plath and reflects on its implications both for the discussions contained in the book and for the study of Plath’s work more generally.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56403331350902,"sku":"9781789627947","price":31.94,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_36660803.jpg?v=1760751144","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781789627947-alvarez-generation-2e","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}