Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980

In a catalogue note for the 1965 exhibition ''Between Poetry and Painting'' at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, the poet Edwin Morgan probed the relationship between abstraction and literature: ''Abstract painting can often satisfy, but "abstract poetry" can only exist in inverted commas''. Language may be fragmented, rearranged, or distorted, abstract in so far as it is withdrawn from a partic...