A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry
Published on 30. March 2009
328 pages
978-1-4443-1029-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 poetrypublished in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century
* Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, TedHughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion
* Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complexnegotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, andpulling together competing tendencies and positions
* Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the UnitedStates
* Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology,detailing the most important writers, volumes and events
Reviews / Votes
"Eminently readable, and thankfully largely free ofsocio-political posturing and theorising, it provides a measuredhistorical overview and a critical introduction, and one can seethat the overall approach aims to be integrative, charting what aredescribed as intricate negotiations between the British and Irishpoetic traditions, and marshalling rival tendencies andpositions." (Suite101.com, 17 February 2014)Gives some sense of why poetry provides the sharpest of lenses through which to view the historical and social developments of the second half of the twentieth century, and will serve both as a useful source of reference and a provocative starting point for discussion." (English Studies, 1 December 2011) "Engaging and uncluttered by jargon. The mix of formal and thematic issues with social and cultural contexts doubles the usefulness of this collection as a preparatory tool for students of the period." (CHOICE, December 2009)More details
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Persons
Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College
C. D. Blanton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley
Content
Notes on Contributors ix
Acknowledgments xii
Chronology xv
Introduction 1
Nigel Alderman and C. D. Blanton
1 Poetic Modernism and the Century's Wars 11
Vincent Sherry
2 The Movement and the Mainstream 32
Stephen Burt
3 Myth, History, and The New Poetry 51
Nigel Alderman
4 Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland 72
Michael Thurston
5 Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry 92
John P. Waters
6 Poetry and Decolonization 111
Jahan Ramazani
7 Transatlantic Currents 134
C. D. Blanton
8 Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations 155
Drew Milne
9 Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject176
Linda A. Kinnahan
10 Place, Space, and Landscape 200
Eric Falci
11 Poetry and Religion 221
Romana Huk
12 Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain 243
Peter Middleton
References 264
Index 285
