A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry
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ISBN-13:
9781118646946
Veröffentl:
2014
Erscheinungsdatum:
03.02.2014
Seiten:
336
Autor:
Nigel Alderman
Gewicht:
431 g
Format:
229x150x18 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
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
Notes on Contributors ixAcknowledgments xiiChronology xvIntroduction 1Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton1 Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars 11Vincent Sherry2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32Stephen Burt3 Myth, History, and The New Poetry 51Nigel Alderman4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72Michael Thurston5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92John P. Waters6 Poetry and Decolonization 111Jahan Ramazani7 Transatlantic Currents 134C. D. Blanton8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155Drew Milne9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject 176Linda A. Kinnahan10 Place, Space, and Landscape 200Eric Falci11 Poetry and Religion 221Romana Huk12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243Peter MiddletonReferences 264Index 285
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