Poetry of the Forties (Twentieth Century Classics)

Assaulted by the harsh facts of war, sent overseas to exotic locations and thrown back on the need to re-examine their feelings for their country, the poets - Dylan Thomas, David Gascoyne, George Barker, Bernard Spencer, Lawrence Durrell, Roy Fuller, Terence Tiller and Kathleen Raine among many - turned away from Auden and the 'New Country' school of writers, whose intellectualism and 'social objectivity' no longer accommodated the need to make sense of the destructive forces sweeping the world. Robin Skelton has included the famous and less well-known names in an anthology that both illuminates the psychological uncertainties of a war-torn decade and reflects the urgent, passionate voice with which these Forties poets spoke.