Introduction : the survival of poetry / Martin Dodsworth -- The poetry of Philip Larkin / Anthony Thwaite -- Lowell's marble meanings / Gabriel Pearson -- John Berryman : an introduction / Martin Dodsworth -- Ted Hughes / Derwent May -- The poetry of Sylvia Plath : enlargement or derangement? / Barbara Hardy -- Thom Gunn : poetry as action and submission / Martin Dodsworth -- The black mountain poets : Charles Olson and Edward Dorn / Donald Davie
Notes
Based on a series of lectures given at the Department of Extra-Mural Studies of the University of London in 1968