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The Cambridge companion to twentieth-century English poetry

Corcoran , Neil2007
Books, Manuscripts
The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by highly regarded poetry critics offer an up-to-date, stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the 20th ce
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Imprint:
Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2007
Collation:
268 p.
Contents:
Victorian to modern / Timothy Webb -- Modernist poetic form / Daniel Albright -- Postmodern poetry in Britain / Redell Olsen -- Fateful forms : A.E. Housman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas / Peter Howarth -- D.H. Lawrence's place in modern poetry / Sandra M. Gilbert -- Wilfred Owen and the poetry of war / Neil Corcoran -- The 1930s poetry of W.H. Auden / Michael O'Neill -- Keith Douglas and the poetry of the Second World War / Adam Piette -- Languages of modernism: William Empson, Dylan Thomas, W.S. Graham / Edward Larrissy -- Philip Larkin : a late modern poet / Stephen Regan -- R.S. Thomas and modern Welsh poetry / M. Wynn Thomas -- Gender, feminism, poetry : Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Jo Shapcott / Linda Anderson -- Varieties of poetic sequence : Ted Hughes and Geoffery Hill / Kevin Hart -- Black British poetry and the translocal / Jahan Ramazani -- Poetry and class : Tony Harrison, Peter Reading, Ken Smith, Sean O'Brien / Neil Roberts -- A Scottish renaissance : Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Liz Lochhead, Robert Crawford, Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie / Fiona Stafford -- Lyric adaptations : James Fenton, Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy / John Redmond.
ISBN:
9780521870818 (hbk)
Dewey class:
821.91 CAM
Local class:
821.91
Language:
English
BRN:
134256
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