Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry - Michael Thurston, Nigel Alderman

Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

Buch | Hardcover
352 Seiten
2014
Wiley-Blackwell (Verlag)
978-0-470-65731-7 (ISBN)
88,06 inkl. MwSt
Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.           



Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and selected poems volumes
Pays explicit attention to how to read the poems, focusing on language and form and the institutional conditions of literary possibility in which poets worked
Includes poets of all types and styles from throughout the post-war period, including canonical and mainstream poets alongside experimental poets, women, and poets of color

 

 

Michael Thurston his Professor of English at Smith College. In addition to books on American political poets and the Underworld descent in twentieth-century poetry, he has published numerous essays on twentieth-century poetry. Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He has published on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry.  

Acknowledgments viii 1 Introduction: “Postwar,” “British,” “Irish,” and “Poetry” 1

2 A Brief Historical Survey 19

3 The Literary Landscape 41

4 Histories of Forms 86

5 Poetry of Place 131

6 History and Historiography 161

7 Varieties of the Long Poem 186

8 Subject To, Subject Of 226

9 Anthologies and Groups 276

10 Epilogue: Beyond “British,” “Irish,” and “Poetry” 296

References 312

Index 322

Reihe/Serie Blackwell Reading Poetry
Verlagsort Hoboken
Sprache englisch
Maße 160 x 236 mm
Gewicht 585 g
Themenwelt Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Anglistik / Amerikanistik
Geisteswissenschaften Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10 0-470-65731-6 / 0470657316
ISBN-13 978-0-470-65731-7 / 9780470657317
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