Pylon Poets

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A group of English poets of the 1930s is referred to as Pylon Poets or "Pylon school" .

In contrast to TS Eliot or William Butler Yeats , the pylons deal with the England of their present, the city as a working and living space. In a way, the motif of the Pylon Poets resembles that of the lyric poetry of New Objectivity . The Pylon Poets include WH Auden , Stephen Spender , Stanley Snaith , Louis MacNeice , Cecil Day-Lewis and Christopher Isherwood . The name of the group refers to the title of the poem The Pylon by Stephen Spender from 1933. With a clear language and a sober style, the pylons set themselves apart from the esoteric symbolism of the previous generation of poets.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Overview Pylon School , accessed July 28, 2020.
  2. ↑ Stephen Spender , online article at Poetry Foundation , accessed July 28, 2020.
  3. ↑ Nirupi Rani: BACKGROUND TO TWENTIETH CENTURY BRITISH POETRY , online publication by Acharya Nagarjuna University, accessed on July 28, 2020.