Minotaur: Poetry and the Nation State

Contents
Author’s Note
Introduction
Pure Primitive Divinity: The Republican Epic of John Milton
Southey Landing
John Clare in Babylon
Citizen Clough
Overthrowing the Fathers: Christina Rossetti
Hopkins on the Rampage
Writing beyond Writing: Emily Dickinson
The Great Horn-Handled Jack-Knife: Great Expectations as Epic Poem
Yeats’s Hunger-Strike Poem
Salid Oil and Alexindrines: Yeats’s Letters
Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers: D. H. Lawrence
Poetry and Power: Robert Frost
Dwelling without Roots: Elizabeth Bishop
Mr Cogito and the Nation: Zbigniew Herbert
The Soldier and the Prince: Zbigniew Herbert
Dimensions of the Present Moment: Miroslav Holub
Hiding Itself in Itself: Tadeusz Rozewicz
She Did Not Change: Philip Larkin
Laureate of the Free Market? Ted Hughes
A Visionary Nationalist: Geoffrey Hill
Junk Britain: Peter Reading
Acknowledgements