num_pages: 224
description: Edwin Morgan is Scotland's major living poet, and Inventions of Modernity is the first book-length study of his work. Since the 1940s Morgan's poetry has been carving out an alternative to the conventional evolutions from Modernism to Postmodernism, creating instead a substantial body of writing that ranges from the sublime to the hilarious. Morgan develops radical and libertarian poetics in an encyclopaedia of forms; from Anglo-Saxon meter through sonnet-sequences to concrete poems, and including gay poetry, science fiction verse, and prize-winning translations into both English and Scots from numerous languages.
language: English
title: Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity
titlecomplete: Edwin Morgan: Inventions of Modernity
characters: Edwin Morgan
genres: Nonfiction, Poetry
ratings_count: 9
publisher: Manchester University Press