Late Modernism and 'The English Intelligencer'

Despite the brevity of its run and the diminutive size of its audience, The English Intelligencer is a key publication in the history of literary modernism in the British Isles. Emerging in the mid-1960s from a dissatisfaction with the prevailing norms of ''Betjeman''s England'', the young writers associated with it were catalysed by the example of Donald Allen''s The New American Poetry as they s...