Edwin Morgan Inventions Of Modernity

Edwin Morgan Is Scotlands Major Living Poet, And Inventions Of Modernity Was The First Book-length Study Of His Work. Since The 1940s Morgans Poetry Has Been Carving Out An Alternative To The Conventional Evolutions From Modernism To Postmodernism, Creating Instead A Substantial Body Of Writing That Ranges From The Sublime To The Hilarious. Instinctively At Odds With The Literary Politics Of The Pound-eliot Axis That Remained Influential Deep Into The Twentieth Century, Morgan Develops Instead A Radical And Libertarian Poetics In An Encyclopaedia Of Forms; From Anglo-saxon Metre Through Sonnet-sequences To Concrete Poems, And Including Gay Poetry, Science Fiction Verse And Prize-winning Translations Into Both English And Scots From Numerous Languages.