Authors:	Schuppert, René
Advisor:	Scheiding, Oliver
Title:	Thom Gunn: lives and poetries
Online publication date:	27-Mar-2024
Year of first publication:	2024
Language:	english
Abstract:	Thom Gunn is probably the forgotten poet of the 20th century. His variation in style and subject matter is broad and one of the reasons he is hard to grasp and thus less discussed than his contemporaries. Although he gained certain fame with The Man With Night Sweats, his oeuvre lacks to be as well-known it deserves. There is not much written on Thom Gunn, and as such Thom Gunn: Lives and Poetries is supposed to be a door opener. The book is primarily a biography of the poet who moved from London to San Francisco, both personally as well as a writer. Describing himself as an Anglo-American poet, he discovers a wide array of possibilities to express his poetry. From metered and structured to free verse and back he uses his full potential at all times. Having studied under F. R. Leavis and Yvor Winter and having adapted from both of his mentors already gives a glimpse of how open Gunn was to influences in poetry, and his choice of what he wanted to say did the rest. The book covers Gunn’s early influences, his development as a writer and a gay man trying to find and refine his own voice in poetry. It provides an easy access to a possible understanding of the man behind the writer.
DDC:	400 Sprache 400 Language 420 Englisch 420 English 800 Literatur 800 Literature and rhetoric 810 Englische Literatur Amerikas 810 American literature in English 820 Englische Literatur 820 English and Old English literatures 920 Biografie 920 Biography
Institution:	Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz
Department:	FB 05 Philosophie und Philologie
Place:	Mainz
ROR:	https://ror.org/023b0x485
DOI:	http://doi.org/10.25358/openscience-10183
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hebis:77-openscience-dd00f389-6fbf-4b7d-b870-4c04abaaa2c66
Version:	Original work
Publication type:	Dissertation
License:	In Copyright
Information on rights of use:	http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/
Extent:	311 Seiten ; Illustrationen
Appears in collections:	JGU-Publikationen