Fishing by Obstinate Isles

Modern and Postmodern British Poetry and American Readers

• Author(s): Keith Tuma,
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Pages: 299
• ISBN_10: 0810116235
  ISBN_13: 9780810116238
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Literary Criticism / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh , Literary Criticism / Poetry , Literary Criticism / Comparative Literature , Poetry / General , Poetry / European / English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh ,

Description:... Fishing by Obstinate Isles explores the relations of recent British and American poetries, challenging American views of a British poetry dominated by antimodernism while discussing the role of rhetorics of national identity on both sides of the Atlantic in the persistence of these views. Devoting its most extensive commentary to a collection of British modernist and postmodernist poets, it attacks the relegation of British poetry to the zones of the quaint, making a compelling case for renewed engagements with fields of British poetry deserving of attention.