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fit the label of wild irrationalists. There has been a general reluctance to examine this decade seriously. Rather, the cliches about the 1940s have been maintained by critics decades later. In his influential essay 'Beyond the Gentility Principle'," A. Alvarez reduces the poetry ofthe 1940s to a reaction against the 1930s. In his over-simplification, he sees the int elligent socio-political poetry ofW. H . Auden simply replaced by the disjointed ramblings ofDylan Thomas. His opinions would have been more persuasive ifhe had dealt with and dismissed the variety of poetic voices or more forcefully illustrated their weaknesses in light of strengths. Instead, he downgrades the decade as a time when poets, for the most part, 'kiss meaning goodbye' .

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Author

Linda M. Shires (auth.)

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan UK : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan

Published

1985

Language

EN

ISBN

9780333369494

Category

literary studies

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Poetry, History

Updated

2026-03-25