Lines of Resistance

"This collection of 15 essays explores how poetry and resistance interact, set against philosophical, historical and cultural background. From this perspective, the resistance of poetry is connected with the human call to solidarity, resilience, and, ultimately, meaning. The volume covers poetry from Hardy, Yeats and Auden, among others, to contemporary writers like Hugo Williams and Linton Kwesi Johnson"--Provided by publisher.

Adrian Grafe is a professor of English at Artois University in France. He was an associate professor at the Sorbonne for 10 years, has published broadly on poetry, and was named a Fellow of the English Association in 2011. Jessica Stephens is an assistant professor of English at Paris 3 Sorbonne Nouvelle University, where she teaches translation. Until the spring of 2010 she was co-director of the English Department at Angers University where she taught poetry and the translation of contemporary British poetry, and ran a Translation Studies MA program.