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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by the leading scholar on Forrest-Thomson’s work, this study explores Forrest-Thomson’s published work as well as unpublished materials from the Veronica Forrest-Thomson Archive.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.

Literature. --- Literature, Modern --- Poetry. --- British literature. --- Poetry and Poetics. --- Twentieth-Century Literature. --- Contemporary Literature. --- British and Irish Literature. --- Literature --- Belles-lettres --- Western literature (Western countries) --- World literature --- Poems --- Poetry --- Verses (Poetry) --- 20th century. --- 21st century. --- Philosophy --- Philology --- Authors --- Authorship --- Language poetry --- History and criticism. --- Forrest-Thomson, Veronica --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Forrest-Thompson, Veronica --- Thomson, Veronica Forrest --- -Thompson, Veronica Forrest --- -Forrest, Veronica --- Literature, Modern-20th century. --- Literature, Modern—20th century. --- Literature, Modern—21st century. --- European literature. --- European Literature. --- European literature