A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry
by Editor: Nigel Alderman (Mount Holyoke College, USA); Editor: C. D. Blanton (University of California, Berkeley, USA)Format: eBook
Pub. Date: 2009-03-01
Publisher(s): Wiley-Blackwell
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Summary
This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events
Table of Contents
| Notes on Contributors | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Chronology | |
| Introduction | |
| Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars | |
| The Movement of the Mainstream | |
| Myth, History and The New Poetry | |
| Region and Nation in Britian and Ireland | |
| Form and Identity in the Northern Irish Poetry | |
| Poetry and Decolonization | |
| Transatlantic Currents | |
| Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations | |
| Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject | |
| Place, Space, and Landscape | |
| Poetry and Religion | |
| Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain | |
| References | |
| Index | |
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