Veronica Forrest-Thomson
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Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Poet on the Periphery

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Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Poet on the Periphery

About this book

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson's relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson's work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson's published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson's writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.

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Table of contents

  1. Preface
  2. Contents
  3. List of Figures
  4. Chapter 1 Introduction: Poet on the Periphery
  5. Chapter 2 The Reluctant Radical: Identi-Kit and Uncollected Early Poems
  6. Chapter 3 Cambridge, Verbal Hiccups and Iambics: Twelve Academic Questions and Language-Games
  7. Chapter 4 Poetic Artifice and the Defence of Form
  8. Chapter 5 Simplicity and Complexity in the Quest for Style
  9. Chapter 6 Control and Excess in the Quest for ‘Writing Straight’
  10. Chapter 7 Coda: The Risks of ‘Freedom, Truth and Skill’
  11. References
  12. Index