Beschreibung:
This book brings together two major poets in order to ask how they pitch their poetry against an inhospitable world. It explores how Philip Larkin and Charles Tomlinsonseek to redress an "age of demolition" through their poetry, and how their audiences react to the types of redress they propose.
Introduction: "The mind is a hunter of forms" 1 An Age of Demolition 2 The Trembling Mirror 3 All the Kingdoms of Possibilities 4 When Readings Grow Erratic 5 Celestial Recurrences, Lost Displays 6. Conclusion