Representatives of lit. periods Flashcards
Movement poets
Philip Larkin, Donald Davie, Thom Gunn, Kingsley Amis
Movement poets characteristics
Strove for simplicity, went back to realism, concerned with everyday themes and regular people. Colloquial language, strict poetic forms
Poets of the 30s
Edith Sitwell, W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice, Dylan Thomas
Poets of the 30s characteristics
The sociopolitical aspect of real life, stagnation and unemployment. All held left-wing views. Learned metrical and verbal techniques from Eliot, Hopkins and Owen
Great War poets
Wilfred Owen, Siegfried Sassoon, Isaac Rosenberg
Great War poets characteristics
Against the hypocrisy of Victorian values. The poetry was sardonic, ironic, sarcastic. Used slang and jargon. Wrote in a very clear and controversial manner. Disregarded the Romantics, and paved the way for experimental writing forms
Georgian poets
Edmund Blunden, Rupert Brooke, Edward Thomas,
Georgian poetry characteristics
Favoured tradition, tried to follow Wordsworth in his efforts to write in common language. The poetry relied on realism tinged with a love of England and Englishness. Strong emphasis on emotional response. Strong dislike for Victorian poetry and tried to reintroduce the Romantic idea of the individual in a rural landscape. Later became a pejorative term.
Imagists characteristics
It fought against Romantic fuzziness and emotionalism in poetry. Hard clear and precise images. Direct treatment of the things, avoidance of words that do not contribute to the presentation and a freer metrical movement. Spicing up poetic utterances with colloquialisms and slang.
Modernism characteristics
It objectifies the subjective, kills the author and leaves the text in the limelight. Modernism encourages the mind to make audible its internal voices (the stream of consciousness novel). Tradition is stopped. Emphasis on experimenting and intellect is preferred over emotions. The aesthetic of the ugly becomes prominent.
The Imagists
T. E. Hulme, Ezra Pound, Joseph Campbell
