Douglas Dunn

by Kennedy, David; Armstrong, Isobel

• ISBN13: 9780746311646
• ISBN10: 0746311648
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2008-09-23
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press

Summary

"Douglas Dunn is one of the most widely read and respected poets of his generation. In a career spanning over forty years, he has refined lyric poetry into an instrument with which to make acute observations of English urban scenes, pastoral traditions, class and education, and the past, present and future of his native Scotland. In this lucid and wide-ranging critical study, poet and critic David Kennedy charts Dunn's career from his debut volume Terry Street (1969) to his New Selected Poems 1964-2000 (2003). He argues that Dunn's poetry has developed through often highly ambivalent relationships with form, culture and the public identity and role of the poet. Subtle readings of Dunn's most intimate poetry are combined with careful analysis of Dunn's exploration of what form Scotland's national consciousness might take. Dunn emerges as a complex writer passionately concerned with both the private and the political."--BOOK JACKET.

Author Biography

David Kennedy is Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing at the University of Hull.

Table of Contents

Biographical Outline
Abbreviations and References
Introduction	p. 1
Part of a Place	p. 9
Realisms, Rhapsodies and Responsibilities	p. 22
Gestures of Affront	p. 37
Innermost Dialects	p. 55
Decencies, Disenchantments and Diversity	p. 70
Notes	p. 81
Bibliography	p. 86
Index	p. 90
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