A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (original) (raw)

Considers the resistance to and reception of American influence, focusing on the problem of cultural translation, from the modernists and the Auden generation to the Movement, the British poetry revival, and the contemporary avant-garde. 8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155 Drew Milne Surveys the complex array of avant-garde formations after modernism, tracing the multiple experimental tendencies of neo-modernist writing, with particular attention to the sites, groupings, anthologies, and critical languages of recent innovative poetries.