Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgements vi
4. Illustrations viii
5. Introduction 1
6. 1 Camp Poetics and Holocaust Icons in the Poetry of Sylvia Plath 28
7. 2 'Beauty ... remains "a brief gasp between one cliche and another'": Awkward Poetics in Geoffrey Hill's The Triumph of Love 62
8. 3 'There's something for everyone in a myth': Auschwitz-Birkenau and the Classics in Tony Harrison's Prometheus 100
9. 4 Ted Hughes, Peephole Metaphysics and the Poetics of Extremity 142
10. Conclusion 174
11. Bibliography 179
12. Index 187