... variation in poetry linguistic struggle British poetry British literary culture spectral identity personality models The possibility of misreading a line or a poem has directed us to sets of verbal analogies to the poem's parts, stacked and stored as history, sociology and literary comparison...

... poets Easthope Anthony Geijer Erik Gustaf MacDiarmid Hugh Sweden Thomson George Stalinist theorist regionalist poetic ideology east–west cultural influences British poetry British literary culture contemporary poetry The centre is impossible to find or define, since it is a paranoid fantasy...

... of the first period covering the fourth to the seventh centuries, there was a progressive Hellenization of Syriac literary culture in general that extends to virtually all areas of literary productivity. The chapter also illustrates the time when the Arab invasions cut Syriac Christianity off from the Greek...

...Traditional accounts of Romantic and nineteenth-century poetry have depicted John Clare as a peripheral figure, an ‘original genius’ whose talents set him apart from the mainstream of contemporary literary culture. But in recent years there has been a major shift of direction in Clare studies...

... incompatible with the elite registers of print culture. The chapter looks at the mimetic politics of having a literary culture – the issues involved in ‘managing mimesis’ – in Saint-Domingue's cultural life during the years of the Haitian Revolution and early independence. In particular, it considers...

... Vesper Will Nazi poet and anthologist Anglo Welsh poetry Conran Anthony Hooker Jeremy machismo Marx marxism sympathetic circularity Laing R D and Esterson Aaron print based culture helikia Halliday M A K linguist status signalling British poetry British literary culture poets New Left...

...The book raises the provocative question of just how accurate — and useful — the concept of a British literary culture is for a nation that stretches over 600 miles and includes four distinct national cultures. It identifies distinct regional poetic traditions in Scotland, Wales and the north...

... objects, phenomena, and cultural contexts. This approach, indebted to classical concrete, reflected both his opposition to the restrictions of Scottish literary culture during the 1960s, and a sense of the value of aesthetic order which had ideological and biographical connotations. But his interaction...

...This chapter sums up the key findings of this study on John Clare and his poems. It has described the intricate ways in which Clare was placed, and placed himself among the poets and in the literary culture of his time and provided new insights into how Clare and other ‘humble’ writers drew...

...This chapter examines Thomas' later style. It argues that immediately after the war Thomas tried to negotiate a new relationship to a fragmenting literary-cultural sphere. Pastoral — placing the complex into the simple — is seen as the governing genre and tactic of all the later work, influencing...

... and terminological, that constitute evidence of the two Romantics’ unacknowledged indebtedness to ways of thinking and perceiving absorbed from the literary culture of the long eighteenth century. The chapter then provides a brief justification of the philological close reading practiced in chapter nine...