By Dr Oliver Tearle (Loughborough University)
The 1950s was the age of austerity and the end of wartime rationing in the UK, while American poetry found a new voice in the disillusioned and politically active Beat poets. Below, we introduce ten of the greatest 1950s poems, ranging from the very short (see the e. e. cummings poem, for instance) to the very long, almost epic poem by David Jones.