1. OF RAINSTORMS AND BUS STOPS PIOGGIA E COLORE NELLA POESIA POP INGLESE
- Author
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DI PIAZZA, Erika, Gannuscio, V., Soboleva, O., Agnetta, A., Chiavetta, E., Rizzo, M., Longhi, E., Di Bella, A., De Lucia, S., Burket, R. E., Centorbi, N., Cottone, M., Koleva, I., Raciti, G., Scalia, G, Schembri, R., Schirò, C. M., Sinatra, C., Tomasino, R., Weerning, M., Di Piazza, E., Gannuscio, V., Soboleva, O., Agnetta, A., Chiavetta, E., Rizzo, M., Longhi, E., Di Bella, A., De Lucia, S., Burket, R.E., Centorbi, N., Cottone, M., Koleva, I., Raciti, G., Scalia, G, Schembri, R., Schirò, C.M., Sinatra, C., Tomasino, R., and Weerning, M.
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pop poetry ,Settore L-LIN/10 - Letteratura Inglese - Abstract
This paper aims to demonstrate how much Adrian Henri’s poetry changed in his last years. As a member of the Liverpool Poets together with Roger McGough and Brian Patten, Adrian Henri was attracted by what Edward Lucie-Smith called ‘performativity’. The three of them very often played public readings. Their poetry was a real ‘oral’ literature, lyrical, as only British poetry can be. Mortified by a heart attack in the late ‘90s, Henri changed his life and literary stile, adopting a more subjective and romantic use of the words, whose main power was to be evocative as well as rich in symbols.
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- 2009