William Wootten
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381632
- eISBN:
- 9781781384893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381632.003.0016
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter argues that the offsprings of The New Poetry have neither the nerve nor nous to have both the fierce partiality and the representativeness of Alvarez. Its Penguin successor, Blake ...
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This chapter argues that the offsprings of The New Poetry have neither the nerve nor nous to have both the fierce partiality and the representativeness of Alvarez. Its Penguin successor, Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion's Penguin Book of Contemporary British Verse, was ultimately a consolidation of a dominant taste more than an argument for a fresh one. The oft-stated complaint about the younger poets championed in their book is that their work was merely a continuation of the Movement by flashier device, but in truth a number of them are better seen as children of The New Poetry. Bloodaxe, a specialist poetry house, has for the last two decades taken upon itself to publish generation-defining anthologies. Its own The New Poetry borrowed Alvarez's title, if not his sense of purpose, but drew heavily on the format and ethos of Edward Lucie-Smith, if not his evaluative sense. The editors assembled work which often showed the influence of Paul Muldoon as well as the New York Poets, whose sense of play, even of fun, is much more clearly at odds with the spirits of Alvarez and of Conquest than are the influences of the Motion/Morison book.Less
This chapter argues that the offsprings of The New Poetry have neither the nerve nor nous to have both the fierce partiality and the representativeness of Alvarez. Its Penguin successor, Blake Morrison and Andrew Motion's Penguin Book of Contemporary British Verse, was ultimately a consolidation of a dominant taste more than an argument for a fresh one. The oft-stated complaint about the younger poets championed in their book is that their work was merely a continuation of the Movement by flashier device, but in truth a number of them are better seen as children of The New Poetry. Bloodaxe, a specialist poetry house, has for the last two decades taken upon itself to publish generation-defining anthologies. Its own The New Poetry borrowed Alvarez's title, if not his sense of purpose, but drew heavily on the format and ethos of Edward Lucie-Smith, if not his evaluative sense. The editors assembled work which often showed the influence of Paul Muldoon as well as the New York Poets, whose sense of play, even of fun, is much more clearly at odds with the spirits of Alvarez and of Conquest than are the influences of the Motion/Morison book.
Christopher Hilliard
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199695171
- eISBN:
- 9780199949946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695171.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
Chapter 6 examines two major efforts to apply the approaches of Scrutiny's cultural criticism to the post-war scene, which now included commercial television and more complex popular art forms aimed ...
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Chapter 6 examines two major efforts to apply the approaches of Scrutiny's cultural criticism to the post-war scene, which now included commercial television and more complex popular art forms aimed at young people. The Penguin volume Discrimination and Popular Culture, which was dominated by Leavis's pupils, grew out of a 1960 teachers’ conference on ‘Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility’. So too did Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts, which adapted Scrutiny ideas and Scrutiny rhetoric to defend certain kinds of film and music as genuinely ‘popular’ and creative, distinguishing them from the rest of ‘mass civilization’. The Popular Arts was consistent with the programme of ‘cultural studies’ that Richard Hoggart outlined for the new centre at the University of Birmingham, but sociology and western Marxism quickly supplanted this ‘left-Leavisite’ version of cultural studies.Less
Chapter 6 examines two major efforts to apply the approaches of Scrutiny's cultural criticism to the post-war scene, which now included commercial television and more complex popular art forms aimed at young people. The Penguin volume Discrimination and Popular Culture, which was dominated by Leavis's pupils, grew out of a 1960 teachers’ conference on ‘Popular Culture and Personal Responsibility’. So too did Stuart Hall and Paddy Whannel's The Popular Arts, which adapted Scrutiny ideas and Scrutiny rhetoric to defend certain kinds of film and music as genuinely ‘popular’ and creative, distinguishing them from the rest of ‘mass civilization’. The Popular Arts was consistent with the programme of ‘cultural studies’ that Richard Hoggart outlined for the new centre at the University of Birmingham, but sociology and western Marxism quickly supplanted this ‘left-Leavisite’ version of cultural studies.
Christopher Hilliard
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- September 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780199695171
- eISBN:
- 9780199949946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199695171.003.0008
- Subject:
- Literature, Criticism/Theory, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter examines the engagement of Scrutiny contributors and F. R. Leavis's pupils with wider publics. F. R. Leavis's idea of ‘minority culture’ was not simply ‘elitist’ but envisioned a chain ...
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This chapter examines the engagement of Scrutiny contributors and F. R. Leavis's pupils with wider publics. F. R. Leavis's idea of ‘minority culture’ was not simply ‘elitist’ but envisioned a chain of ever larger ‘publics’ that could be guided indirectly by a critical minority. The chapter discusses his own public interventions during the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasts them with those of his followers, who went in for the sorts of popularizing usually practised by British intellectuals in the twentieth century. The focus is on the seven-volume Pelican Guide to English Literature edited by Boris Ford, which projected Scrutiny interpretations to a mass audience. Working from the Penguin archives, the chapter charts the series's publishing history, and explores the ways the context of a survey text affected critical judgements in the Scrutiny mode.Less
This chapter examines the engagement of Scrutiny contributors and F. R. Leavis's pupils with wider publics. F. R. Leavis's idea of ‘minority culture’ was not simply ‘elitist’ but envisioned a chain of ever larger ‘publics’ that could be guided indirectly by a critical minority. The chapter discusses his own public interventions during the 1960s and 1970s, and contrasts them with those of his followers, who went in for the sorts of popularizing usually practised by British intellectuals in the twentieth century. The focus is on the seven-volume Pelican Guide to English Literature edited by Boris Ford, which projected Scrutiny interpretations to a mass audience. Working from the Penguin archives, the chapter charts the series's publishing history, and explores the ways the context of a survey text affected critical judgements in the Scrutiny mode.
William Wootten
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- May 2016
- ISBN:
- 9781781381632
- eISBN:
- 9781781384893
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9781781381632.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter focuses on poetry anthologies published in the 1950s and 1960s. Robert Conquest's 1956 Macmillan anthology New Lines was responsible for consolidating the arguments and personnel of the ...
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This chapter focuses on poetry anthologies published in the 1950s and 1960s. Robert Conquest's 1956 Macmillan anthology New Lines was responsible for consolidating the arguments and personnel of the Movement in the public mind. This was achieved through his clear taste and agenda, New Lines' limited personnel of just nine poets, and the generous selections from the poets' work it contained. Another anthology published in the same year was G. S. Fraser's Poetry Now, where no less than 74 poets are represented. The contents list reveals that Fraser was acquainted with the work of many poets from all sides of the poetry world, while the introduction reveals him to be well informed on recent poetic trends. Penguin, the biggest British publisher at that time, also drew up a scheme for new poetry anthologies: a new edition of Kenneth Allott's Contemporary Verse; Poetry since the War, a book suggested by [C. B.] Cox and [A. E.] Dyson of the Critical Quarterly; and An Anthology of Twentieth Century Lyrics with an emphasis on the Georgian style and its inheritors to be edited by one John Smith.Less
This chapter focuses on poetry anthologies published in the 1950s and 1960s. Robert Conquest's 1956 Macmillan anthology New Lines was responsible for consolidating the arguments and personnel of the Movement in the public mind. This was achieved through his clear taste and agenda, New Lines' limited personnel of just nine poets, and the generous selections from the poets' work it contained. Another anthology published in the same year was G. S. Fraser's Poetry Now, where no less than 74 poets are represented. The contents list reveals that Fraser was acquainted with the work of many poets from all sides of the poetry world, while the introduction reveals him to be well informed on recent poetic trends. Penguin, the biggest British publisher at that time, also drew up a scheme for new poetry anthologies: a new edition of Kenneth Allott's Contemporary Verse; Poetry since the War, a book suggested by [C. B.] Cox and [A. E.] Dyson of the Critical Quarterly; and An Anthology of Twentieth Century Lyrics with an emphasis on the Georgian style and its inheritors to be edited by one John Smith.
Robert Brustein
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300115772
- eISBN:
- 9780300135367
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300115772.003.0003
- Subject:
- Society and Culture, Cultural Studies
This chapter begins with a book by Patricia Bosworth on the subject of Marlon Brando. Its inclusion in the list of Penguin titles has raised many eyebrows. The reason is not because Penguin is ...
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This chapter begins with a book by Patricia Bosworth on the subject of Marlon Brando. Its inclusion in the list of Penguin titles has raised many eyebrows. The reason is not because Penguin is devoted to high cultural figures. A book on Crazy Horse is included, and so is a projected work on Elvis Presley. If Brando seems misplaced in this company, it is because, though unquestionably an acting genius, he has so often cheapened and abused his prodigious talent. Profoundly scornful of his profession, indifferent toward his artistry, repelled by his own character, he is, in fact, so uninterested in his public self that he refused to be interviewed for this book. For Brando, acting has always triggered his deepest contempt. The reasons for this have something to do with the man and something to do with the Hollywood culture that spawned and exploited him. Bosworth's most valuable contributions to a large Brando biography industry are her speculations about the social and psychological conditions that sparked his apparent self-loathing.Less
This chapter begins with a book by Patricia Bosworth on the subject of Marlon Brando. Its inclusion in the list of Penguin titles has raised many eyebrows. The reason is not because Penguin is devoted to high cultural figures. A book on Crazy Horse is included, and so is a projected work on Elvis Presley. If Brando seems misplaced in this company, it is because, though unquestionably an acting genius, he has so often cheapened and abused his prodigious talent. Profoundly scornful of his profession, indifferent toward his artistry, repelled by his own character, he is, in fact, so uninterested in his public self that he refused to be interviewed for this book. For Brando, acting has always triggered his deepest contempt. The reasons for this have something to do with the man and something to do with the Hollywood culture that spawned and exploited him. Bosworth's most valuable contributions to a large Brando biography industry are her speculations about the social and psychological conditions that sparked his apparent self-loathing.
Michele K. Troy
- Published in print:
- 2017
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780300215687
- eISBN:
- 9780300228076
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300215687.003.0020
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter focuses on the emergence of rival publishers and how Albatross Press responded to the challenge. After the Germans bombarded his London office, John Holroyd-Reece took up his defense of ...
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This chapter focuses on the emergence of rival publishers and how Albatross Press responded to the challenge. After the Germans bombarded his London office, John Holroyd-Reece took up his defense of Albatross from a new location: 13 New Square. The continental market for English books was open to competition, and Holroyd-Reece saw rivals rising up over the horizon. One of them, the Swedish publisher Albert Bonnier, opened a New York office in an attempt to win American rights for his own continental English edition: Clipper Books. As war dragged on, publishers became bolder about challenging Albatross and Bernhard Tauchnitz. On July 30, 1935, Allen Lane launched his Penguin Books into the British market. One of Lane's chief American allies was Kurt Enoch.Less
This chapter focuses on the emergence of rival publishers and how Albatross Press responded to the challenge. After the Germans bombarded his London office, John Holroyd-Reece took up his defense of Albatross from a new location: 13 New Square. The continental market for English books was open to competition, and Holroyd-Reece saw rivals rising up over the horizon. One of them, the Swedish publisher Albert Bonnier, opened a New York office in an attempt to win American rights for his own continental English edition: Clipper Books. As war dragged on, publishers became bolder about challenging Albatross and Bernhard Tauchnitz. On July 30, 1935, Allen Lane launched his Penguin Books into the British market. One of Lane's chief American allies was Kurt Enoch.
- Published in print:
- 2005
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780853238195
- eISBN:
- 9781846313806
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Liverpool University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5949/liverpool/9780853238195.003.0006
- Subject:
- Literature, Poetry
This chapter discusses how the The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry represents a development of the Movement Orthodoxy. The arrival of the second anthology entitled The New Poetry in 1993 ...
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This chapter discusses how the The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry represents a development of the Movement Orthodoxy. The arrival of the second anthology entitled The New Poetry in 1993 could be regarded either as an unimaginative or an opportunistic confirmation of the ‘negative feedback’ paradigm of Alvarez because it annexed the title and showed similar claims to novelty as its predecessor. The anthology also claimed to show the ‘beginning of the end of British poetry's tribal divisions and isolation, and a new cohesiveness’. The Movement's characteristic ironical strategies are just as often substituted by a less defensive postmodernism and a more playful ‘scepticism’ than the ludic metaphoric tinges of the The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry and the 1980s.Less
This chapter discusses how the The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry represents a development of the Movement Orthodoxy. The arrival of the second anthology entitled The New Poetry in 1993 could be regarded either as an unimaginative or an opportunistic confirmation of the ‘negative feedback’ paradigm of Alvarez because it annexed the title and showed similar claims to novelty as its predecessor. The anthology also claimed to show the ‘beginning of the end of British poetry's tribal divisions and isolation, and a new cohesiveness’. The Movement's characteristic ironical strategies are just as often substituted by a less defensive postmodernism and a more playful ‘scepticism’ than the ludic metaphoric tinges of the The Penguin Book of Contemporary British Poetry and the 1980s.
Richard Hornsey
- Published in print:
- 2010
- Published Online:
- August 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780816653140
- eISBN:
- 9781452946139
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University of Minnesota Press
- DOI:
- 10.5749/minnesota/9780816653140.003.0005
- Subject:
- History, European Modern History
This chapter talks about the environmental factors and prescriptive geographies that surrounded the public life of books during postwar London. It discusses the popularity of the “vulgar” paperback ...
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This chapter talks about the environmental factors and prescriptive geographies that surrounded the public life of books during postwar London. It discusses the popularity of the “vulgar” paperback in London, and how flamboyant book covers challenge the physical relationship of the book on display to the mind and body of prospective consumers. The chapter concludes with an account of the failed prosecution of Penguin Books Ltd. for its publication of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the conviction of queer lovers John Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, which demonstrates the sexual orderings that governed the postwar visibility of books.Less
This chapter talks about the environmental factors and prescriptive geographies that surrounded the public life of books during postwar London. It discusses the popularity of the “vulgar” paperback in London, and how flamboyant book covers challenge the physical relationship of the book on display to the mind and body of prospective consumers. The chapter concludes with an account of the failed prosecution of Penguin Books Ltd. for its publication of D. H. Lawrence’s Lady Chatterley’s Lover and the conviction of queer lovers John Orton and Kenneth Halliwell, which demonstrates the sexual orderings that governed the postwar visibility of books.
Vanda Zajko
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0010
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter presents a fresh perspective on Graves’s The Greek Myths, which in its presentation of Greek myth aims to serve as both a work of reference and literature. This ambiguity, coupled with ...
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This chapter presents a fresh perspective on Graves’s The Greek Myths, which in its presentation of Greek myth aims to serve as both a work of reference and literature. This ambiguity, coupled with inconsistencies in his use of sources and his creative imagination, created a tense relationship between the academy and Graves. Graves’s methodology combined compilation, organization, and interpretation to produce a corrective to previous scholarship. He wanted to establish a historical and archaeological basis of Greek mythology and reorient it at the centre of the study of early European history. The White Goddess conveys Graves’s idea of a ‘universal pre-history of humankind’, and takes an anthropological approach where myths are evidence of historical events which can be demonstrated once they are interpreted. Myths were puzzles to be solved which required linguistic skills to unlock the ‘prehistoric mentalité’, and he believed in iconotropy, where mythographers’ misinterpretations distorted matters—it would be Graves who would correct these distortions.Less
This chapter presents a fresh perspective on Graves’s The Greek Myths, which in its presentation of Greek myth aims to serve as both a work of reference and literature. This ambiguity, coupled with inconsistencies in his use of sources and his creative imagination, created a tense relationship between the academy and Graves. Graves’s methodology combined compilation, organization, and interpretation to produce a corrective to previous scholarship. He wanted to establish a historical and archaeological basis of Greek mythology and reorient it at the centre of the study of early European history. The White Goddess conveys Graves’s idea of a ‘universal pre-history of humankind’, and takes an anthropological approach where myths are evidence of historical events which can be demonstrated once they are interpreted. Myths were puzzles to be solved which required linguistic skills to unlock the ‘prehistoric mentalité’, and he believed in iconotropy, where mythographers’ misinterpretations distorted matters—it would be Graves who would correct these distortions.
Sonia Sabnis
- Published in print:
- 2015
- Published Online:
- March 2016
- ISBN:
- 9780198738053
- eISBN:
- 9780191801594
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198738053.003.0007
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Poetry and Poets: Classical, Early, and Medieval, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter examines the reception of Robert Graves’s translation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its relation to his friendship with T. E. Lawrence. A claim in its American publication—that Lawrence ...
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This chapter examines the reception of Robert Graves’s translation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its relation to his friendship with T. E. Lawrence. A claim in its American publication—that Lawrence carried the Golden Ass with him in Arabia and later introduced it to Graves—turns out to be false, but nevertheless opens up a comparison between Lawrence and Graves as readers of Apuleius. Despite the limited success of Graves’s translation in academic circles, Lawrence’s and Graves’s respective approaches to the novel exemplify two major trends in its among English-speaking audiences since the appearance of Graves’s translation in 1950.Less
This chapter examines the reception of Robert Graves’s translation of Apuleius’s Golden Ass and its relation to his friendship with T. E. Lawrence. A claim in its American publication—that Lawrence carried the Golden Ass with him in Arabia and later introduced it to Graves—turns out to be false, but nevertheless opens up a comparison between Lawrence and Graves as readers of Apuleius. Despite the limited success of Graves’s translation in academic circles, Lawrence’s and Graves’s respective approaches to the novel exemplify two major trends in its among English-speaking audiences since the appearance of Graves’s translation in 1950.
Stephanie L. Derrick
- Published in print:
- 2018
- Published Online:
- June 2018
- ISBN:
- 9780198819448
- eISBN:
- 9780191859946
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198819448.003.0005
- Subject:
- Religion, Theology
Lewis remained a figure of significance in the decades after his death despite dramatic social change in the second half of the twentieth century. The reasons for this continued visibility involve ...
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Lewis remained a figure of significance in the decades after his death despite dramatic social change in the second half of the twentieth century. The reasons for this continued visibility involve circumstances particular to Lewis and larger social changes, especially in communications and media technologies, education, and culture. Innovation in communications media—radio, the paperback, television, and film—meant that incrementally greater numbers of people became familiar with the name of C. S. Lewis. Dramatic expansions in education also contributed to the canonization of his books. This period also saw a bifurcation in Lewis’s platform between the more commercially successful author of the Narnia books and the Christian apologist intensely admired in America. Lewis’s enduring visibility is to be credited to a myriad of circumstances particular to him and to the profound social changes affecting the religious, cultural, and intellectual life of twentieth-century Britain and America.Less
Lewis remained a figure of significance in the decades after his death despite dramatic social change in the second half of the twentieth century. The reasons for this continued visibility involve circumstances particular to Lewis and larger social changes, especially in communications and media technologies, education, and culture. Innovation in communications media—radio, the paperback, television, and film—meant that incrementally greater numbers of people became familiar with the name of C. S. Lewis. Dramatic expansions in education also contributed to the canonization of his books. This period also saw a bifurcation in Lewis’s platform between the more commercially successful author of the Narnia books and the Christian apologist intensely admired in America. Lewis’s enduring visibility is to be credited to a myriad of circumstances particular to him and to the profound social changes affecting the religious, cultural, and intellectual life of twentieth-century Britain and America.
