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| Titre : | The far-off hills of the imagination : W.R. Rodgers and the Second World War (2016) |
| Auteurs : | Amy SMITH, Auteur |
| Type de document : | Article |
| Dans : | Irish University Review (Vol 46 n 2 Autumn/Winter 2016) |
| Article en page(s) : | p. 309-323 |
| Langues: | Anglais |
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| Résumé : | According to most accounts of the literary history of Northern Ireland, the flourishing of poetry during the late 1960s marked a radical departure from the creative stagnation of the preceding decades; Heaney, Mahon, Longley, and others sought to establish poetic roots in a relatively barren landscape. In this essay I challenge such preconceptions by exploring aspects of a loosely-formed coterie of poets who lived and wrote in Northern Ireland during the Second World War. Perhaps the most popular figure within this group was the Presbyterian minister W.R. Rodgers, whose neo-romantic idiom and Audenesque ideas received many favourable reviews throughout Britain and Ireland. Focusing on Rodgers, I identify the central concerns which united an otherwise diverse group of writers: left-wing political conviction and a desire to see radical social change. In Rodgers's poetry, this theme is communicated through his repeated use of the symbol of the airman. |
| Pays de publication : | Grande-Bretagne (Royaume Uni) |
| Lieu de publication : | Edimbourg |
| Fonds : | Médiathèque |
