The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry

The Cambridge Companion to Twentieth-Century English Poetry
ISBN-10
113982810X
ISBN-13
9781139828109
Category
Literary Criticism
Pages
268
Language
English
Published
2007-12-13
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Author
Neil Corcoran

Description

The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide provocative syntheses for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section, individual chapters cover many ways of looking at the 'modern', the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'. The core of the volume is made up of extensive discussions of individual poets, from W. B. Yeats and W. H. Auden to contemporary poets such as Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. In its coverage of the development, themes and contexts of modern poetry, this Companion is the most useful guide available for students, lecturers and readers.

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