| Description |
1 online resource (xv, 258 pages) |
| Series |
The Cambridge companions complete collection |
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The Cambridge companions to literature and classics |
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Cambridge collections online
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Cambridge companions complete collection
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Cambridge companions to literature and classics
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| Contents |
Introduction / Neil Corcoran -- Contexts -- Victorian to modern / Timothy Webb -- Modernist poetic form / Daniel Albright -- Postmodern poetry in Britain / Redell Olsen -- Moderns -- 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 -- Modernists -- 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 -- Later Modernities -- 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 Geoffrey 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 |
| Summary |
This volume presents an overview of the great achievements of modern poets in Britain in the twentieth century |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge, viewed on April 13, 2016) |
| Subject |
English poetry -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English poetry.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Corcoran, Neil
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| ISBN |
052169132X (pbk.) |
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052187081X |
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1139001779 (electronic bk.) |
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9780521691321 (pbk.) |
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9780521870818 |
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9781139001779 (electronic bk.) |
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