A Concise Companion to Post-war British and Irish Poetry
Wiley-Blackwell (Publisher)
Book
Paperback/Softback
312 pages
978-1-4051-2925-1 (ISBN)
Description
This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry. The book presents 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; and, takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions. The book is written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States. It is organised around the most important historical and formal intersections of the last 50 years. It also includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Chicester
United Kingdom
Publishing group
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Illustrations
12 illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 229 mm
Width: 152 mm
ISBN-13
978-1-4051-2925-1 (9781405129251)
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Persons
Nigel Alderman is assistant professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He previously taught at Yale University where he was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College. He has published on both Romantic and Modern poetry and is completing a book on British literature of the sixties. C. D. Blanton is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches modern poetry. He has previously taught at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study of late modernist British poetry entitled Aftereffects, and together with Nigel Alderman he has edited Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism.
Editor
Mount Holyoke College, USA
University of California, Berkeley, USA
Content
Notes on Contributors.Acknowledgments.Chronology.Introduction: Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton.1. Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars: Vincent Sherry.2. The "Movement" and the Mainstream: Stephen Burt.3. Myth, History, and The New Poetry: Nigel Alderman.4. Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland: Michael Thurston.5. Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry: John Waters.6. Poetry and Decolonization: Jahan Ramazani.7. Transatlantic Currents: C. D. Blanton.8. Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations : Drew Milne.9. Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject: Linda A. Kinnahan.10. Place, Space, and Landscape: Eric Falci.11. Poetry and Religion: Romana Huk.12. Institutions of Poetry in Post-War Britain: Peter Middleton.References.Index