This be the light verse: the elsewhere of Larkin's infamous poem

Rácz, I. D.: This be the light verse: the elsewhere of Larkin's infamous poem.
Br. Am. Stud. 16, 113-122, 2010.

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title:

authors:

Rácz István, D.

published:

2010

type:

article

genre:

research article/review article

journal:

British and American Studies (ISSN: 1224-3086)

language:

English

HAC:

Humanities, Literary and Cultural Studies

subjects:

irodalomtudomány, light verse, parody, poetry, postcolonialism

abstract:

This paper discusses how Larkin's well-known poem ?This Be The Verse" has been re-written by four contemporary poets: Maurice Rutherford, Roger McGough, Adrian Mitchell, and Benjamin Zephaniah. Each of them went their own ways: Rutherford domesticated the image, McGough wrote an angry pamphlet, Mitchell turned the meaning up side down, and Zephaniah wrote a piece of propaganda in a postcolonial context.