Penguin Modern Poets of the 1960s and 1970s
A41

[First published 22 October 2019. Edited.]

I’ve now gone through about a quarter of the circa 1800 poems in the 27 collections in this series and picked out 74 that I like. These I have tentatively categorised under the following 18 headers:

► I – INDIVIDUAL EXPERIENCE
(or general conclusions from it, less connected with social critique)
I1 – Life stages
● (I1a) childhood, youth, adulthood
● (I1b) old age
I2 – Lost love
● (I2a) blood family
● (I2b) lover, misc., unclear
(I3) Dreams, fantasy (individual)
(I4) Misc.

► S – SOCIAL
S1 – Not relating to institutions
● (S1a) mental illness
● (S1b) war, brutality
● (S1c) alienation from nature
● (S1d) misc.
S2 – Institutions
● (S2a) school
● (S2b) caste
● (S2c) media
● (S2d) misc.
(S3) Fantasy (social)

► M – MYSTICISM
(M1) nature
(M2) mystique of experienced time
(M3) misc.

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