Beckett’s English Poetry: Transcending the Roots of Resistance in Language

Samuel Beckett’s poems in English are not much studied, except by Lawrence Harvey, Philip Nikolayev recently and a few others. Thus this is a seminal work extending Harvey’s readings. The book has an introduction and conclusion and divides Beckett’s English poems into the years of learning, the years of wandering and the blue celeste of poesy. Its main argument is that Beckett bridled his anguish at being unable to express due to language’s imperfections and this his work is in the best sense of the word metaphysical.