Civil Humor: The Poetry of Gavin Ewart

Civil Humor: The Poetry of Gavin Ewart
ISBN-10
083863933X
ISBN-13
9780838639337
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
307
Language
English
Published
2002
Publisher
Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
Author
Stephen W. Delchamps

Description

Individual chapters treat the poetry Ewart contributed to various "little magazines" during the 1930s and 1940s; references in Ewart's poems to poetic craft, audience, and tradition; and his handling of characteristic themes including place, the world of work, marriage and children, and death. A full chapter is devoted to the erotically charged poetry for which Ewart was probably best known; the author argues that the richness of this poetry arises from the dynamic interplay of two contrasting poetical personae."--BOOK JACKET.

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