| Description |
xii, 292 pages ; 24 cm. |
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| Series |
Cambridge companions to [literature] |
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Cambridge companions to literature.
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| Summary |
"The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010 brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War, a period of significant achievement in which varied styles and approaches have flourished. As a comprehensive critical, literary-historical and scholarly guide, this Companion offers not only new readings of a wide range of poets but a detailed account of the contexts in which their verse was written and received. Focusing on famous and neglected names alike, from Dylan Thomas to John Agard, leading scholars provide readers with insight into the ongoing importance and profundity of post-war poetry"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-272) and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction / Edward Larrissy -- 1. Poets of the forties and early fifties: the last Romantics? / C.D. Blanton -- 2. The movement poetry and the reading public / Patrick Deane -- 3. Survivors from before the War: late modernists and poets of the 1930s / John Matthias -- 4. Beyond all this fiddle: Hughs, Hill, Tomlinson and Fisher / Eric Falci -- 5. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the international poetry incarnation and performance poetry / Cornelia Gräbner -- 6. High late-modernists or postmodernists? vanguard and linguistically innovative British poetries since 1960 / Simon Perril -- 7. Stretching the lyric: the anthology wars, Martianism and after / Natalie Pollard -- 8. Poetry and class / Sandie Byrne -- 9. 'In a between world': Northern Irish poetry / Fran Brearton -- 10. Scottish poetry, 1945-2010 / Alan Riach -- 11. Welsh poetry since 1945 / Katie Gramich -- 12. Black British poetry / Sarah Lawson Welsh -- 13. Poetry, feminism, gender and women's experience / Jan Montefiore -- 14. Ecopoetics and poetry / Fiona Becket -- 15. Poetry and the city / Peter Barry -- 16. Poetry's outward forms: groups, workshops, readings, publishers / Jon Glover. |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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English poetry. (OCoLC)fst00912278
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| Chronological Term |
1900 - 2099
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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| Added Author |
Larrissy, Edward, editor.
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| ISBN |
9781107090668 (hardback) |
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1107090660 (hardback) |
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9781107462847 (paperback) |
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1107462843 (paperback) |
| Standard No. |
40025727847 |
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