Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer': On the Poetics of Community - Historicizing Modernism

Marc Notes: Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, 'The English Intelligencer' is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of 'Betjeman's England', the young writers associated with it were catalysed by the example of Donald Allen's 'New American Poetry' as they sought to establish a revitalised modernist poetics. This book gives gives a full account of the extraordinary history of this publication, bringing to light extensive new archival material to establish an authoritative contextualisation of its operation and its relationship with post-war British poetry. Table of Contents:1. 'Some Sort of Breakthrough in this Dismal Land': Publishing, Community and Exchange in "The English Intelligencer"""2. 'An Essential Structural Unity': Modernist Ideals in "The English Intelligencer"""3. Beyond the Whole: The Breakdown of Late Modernism in "The English Intelligencer"""4. From Condensare to Aporia: Modernism, Visual Arts and "The English Intelligencer"""5. 'Beginning Nowhere': "The English Intelligencer" and the Modernist Long Poem6. 'Being Worked Out': Social Damage in the 1970s Poetry of Barry MacSweeneyConclusion: 'The Proper Microscope After All': Reading "The English Intelligencer"""Appendix: A Complete Contents Listing of "The English Intelligencer"Biographical Note: Alex Latter completed his PhD at the Contemporary Poetics Research Centre, Birkbeck College, University of London, UK. Contributor Bio:  Tonning, Erik Erik Tonning is Professor of British Literature and Culture at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is co-editor of the Modernist Archives series and the Historicizing Modernism series, both published by Bloomsbury. Contributor Bio:  Feldman, Matthew Matthew Feldman is Professor in the History of Modern Ideas at Teesside University, UK, and co-director of the Centre for Fascist, Anti-fascist and Post-fascist Studies.