Veronica Forrest-Thomson: Poet on the Periphery (Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics) - Hardcover

Farmer, Gareth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 331962721X ISBN 13: 9783319627212

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan, 2017

Synopsis

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson’s relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein.  Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson’s writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.

About this title

About the Author:

Gareth Farmer is Lecturer in English Literature at the University of Bedfordshire, UK and a poet. He has written essays on a range of modern and contemporary experimental writers and on literary and critical theory. He is the Senior Academic Consultant to the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive at Girton College Library, Cambridge.

About this edition

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 331962721X
• ISBN 13: 9783319627212
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 232