New, unused copy with some light shelfwear to cover edges. xxii,322pp. 215x140mm. 0853235414. 490g. 'As environmental concerns increasingly command the attention of poets & their readers alike, & landscape poetry becomes once again an influential & much-used subgenre, this book draws attention to an unjustly neglected aspect of modern literature. The central feature of the work is a re-evaluation, in terms of their contributions to the landscape genre, of five important post-war poets: Philip Larkin, R. S. Thomas, Charles Tomlinson, Ted Hughes & Seamus Heaney. The author examines the dominant images & myths of post-war British landscape poetry, & relates them to the modern environmental crisis. In particular, he considers the recurring myths of Eden & the Fall, which have been used to assert & explain the superiority of the countryside or the natural world (seen as Eden) to the urban environment (seen as the result of the Fall). This book also relates the landscape poetry of the post-war era to its literary-historical forebears, & attempts to predict the ways in which this tradition may change over the next few decades as the environmental crisis deepens.'

Poetry Philip Larkin R S Thomas Charles Tomlinson Ted Hughes seamus Heaney