Veronica Forrest-Thomson

Farmer Gareth

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Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke

2017

219 Pages

ISBN 978-3-319-62721-2

Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics

Veronica Forrest-Thomson

poet on the periphery

Gareth Farmer

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by theleading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive.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.

Publication details

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-62722-9

Full citation:

Farmer, G. (2017). Veronica Forrest-Thomson: poet on the periphery, Palgrave Macmillan, Basingstoke.

Table of Contents

Introduction

Farmer Gareth

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