Andrew Young: Priest, Poet and Naturalist: A Reassessment
Richard Omrod
Synopsis "Andrew Young: Priest, Poet and Naturalist: A Reassessment "
It is the central contention of this book that Andrew John Young (1885-1971) is still seriously under-valued amongst twentieth-century poets, principally because he has been over-anthologised - and by implication, dismissed - as yet another 'nature' poet of the Georgian ilk. A re-assessment is long overdue. Omrod argues, by way of both biography and critical analysis, that Young is a great poet, a modern metaphysical, a poet's poet, whose idiolect is distinctive and whose 'individual talent' both links to yet subtly changes literary 'tradition.'Table of ContentsINTRODUCTIONPART 1. The Early Poet & The Priest:CHAPTER 1. The Boy & His Background (1885-1902)CHAPTER 2. Student Days (1903-1911)CHAPTER 3. Career and Marriage: Early Years (1912-1920)PART 2. The Later Poet & Priest:CHAPTER 4. The Move South (1920-1938)CHAPTER 5. New Directions (1938-1959)CHAPTER 6. Retirement & Last Years (1959-1971)CHAPTER 7. “Out of the World & Back”: (1952 & 1958)CHAPTER 8. A Literary Life: (1910-1937); (1938-1971)PART 3. The Naturalist & Topographer (1945-1967):CHAPTER 9. A Prospect of Flowers, 1945; A Retrospect of Flowers, 1950; A Prospect of Britain, 1956; The Poet & The Landscape, 1962; The New Poly-Olbion, 1967; Young’s prose personasPART 4. Reassessment CHAPTER 10. Old and New AssessmentsAcknowledgementsBibliography