TY - BOOK ID - 78676350 TI - Male poets and the agon of the mother AU - Saltmarsh, Hannah Baker AU - Gill, Jo PY - 2019 SN - 1611179696 9781611179699 9781611179682 1611179688 PB - Columbia, South Carolina DB - UniCat KW - Men and literature KW - Confession in literature. KW - Motherhood in literature. KW - Mothers and sons in literature. KW - American poetry KW - Literature and men KW - Literature KW - History KW - History and criticism. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:78676350 AB - "When looking back today on the American poetry of the second half of the twentieth century, we see that for many of the major--and still dominant--poets of the period, the confessional mode was a vital force. It made--and, of course, was shaped by--Robert Lowell, whose 1959 Life Studies prompted the delineation of the style. It galvanized Sylvia Plath, sustained Anne Sexton, and provided a useful countertradition even for those who never identified themselves as "confessional" (most obviously Elizabeth Bishop). It also proved fundamental to the careers of many poets of the next generation (including Thom Gunn and Sharon Olds)--even as such successors to the original "school" spent much of their time resisting, or at least rethinking, the terms of the debate"-- ER -