Title: Identifying poets
Subtitle: self and territory in twentieth-century poetry
First published: 1993
Description: This groundbreaking study examines the way twentieth-century poets identify themselves with particular territories, constructing and reconstructing territorial identities.

From America to Australia, and from Scotland and England to the Caribbean, it looks in detail at the poetry of six international poets, Robert Frost, Hugh MacDiarmid, Sorley MacLean, Les Murray, John Ashbery and Frank Kuppner, as well as discussing the Scots work of Tom Leonard, Liz Lochhead and Edwin Morgan, and the English-language work of Peter Reading, Judith Wright and Nobel Prize-winner Derek Walcott. Identifying Poets argues that the major theme of contemporary poetry is home and that poets who identify themselves with a 'home territory' are crucial and dominant in twentieth-century poetry.

It is an original and perceptive study of modern international writing.
Subjects: History and criticism, Scottish authors, Scottish poetry, Regionalism in literature, Criticism and interpretation, Poetry, Psychological aspects of Poetry, English poetry, American poetry, Psychological aspects, Self in literature, In literature, Home in literature, Identity (Psychology) in literature, Poetry & poets: from c 1900 -, MacGill-Eain, Somhairle,, Semiotics & Theory, Literary Criticism, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, Regional, Ethnic, Genre, Specific Subject, Literary Criticism & Collections / History & Criticism, MacGill-Eain, Somhairle, Murray, Les A, 20th century, University of South Alabama, Amerikaans, Literature, Gedichten, Identität, Engels, Raum, Lyrik, Heimat, Poetry, history and criticism, Modern Poetry
Places: United States, Scotland
People: Les A. Murray (1938-), Somhairle MacGill-Eain (1911-)
Time periods: 20th century
LC classification: PR8571 .C76 1993