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The Male Image Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry

The Male Image Representations of Masculinity in Postwar Poetry

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This text discusses how masculinity is represented by women poets and gay poets but, most of all, how it is represented by straight male poets. It shows how Robert Lowell and John Berryman both identify a gender malaise in themselves which they struggle with throughout their careers, and how Derek Walcott displays a profound gender insecurity in relation to the colonial experience. It discusses the impact on Ted Hughes and Seamus Heaney of their belief in a transcendent feminine principle, and how C.K. Williams and Paul Muldoon display the impact of feminism on male poets who are young enough to have encountered it at a formative period.

Keywords

Men, psychologyMasculinity

1999Book

Author(s)Ian Gregson

PublisherMacmillan

ISBN9780333760208

LanguageEnglish

SpringerLink Book

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