Veronica Forrest-Thomson: poet on the periphery

Gareth Farmer

Research Output: Book/Report Book Peer-review

Abstract

This study offers a comprehensive examination of the work of the young poet and scholar, Veronica Forrest-Thomson (1947-1975) in the context of a literary-critical revolution of the late sixties and seventies and evaluates her work against contemporary debates in poetry and poetics. Gareth Farmer explores Forrest-Thomson’s relationship to the conflicting models of literary criticism in the twentieth century such as the close-reading models of F.R Leavis and William Empson, postructuralist models, and the work of Ludwig Wittgenstein. Written by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive. Drawing on close readings of Forrest-Thomson’s writings, this study argues that her work enables us reevaluate literary-critical history and suggests new paradigms for the literary aesthetics and poetics of the future.

Publication Information

Output type

Research Output: Book/Report Book Peer-review

Original language

English

Publication milestones

Published - 11/10/2017

Publication status

Published - 11/10/2017

Place of publication

Switzerland

Volume

Publisher

Palgrave Macmillan Ltd., United States, United Kingdom

Publication series

Publication series name: Modern and Contemporary Poetry and Poetics
Number: 1

ISBN (Print)

9783319627229

External Publication IDs

handle.net: 10547/623322

Access to documents

10.1007/978-3-319-62722-9

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