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Informationen zum Autor Neil Corcoran is King Alfred Professor of English Literature at the University of Liverpool. Klappentext This book offers! in seventeen specially commissioned essays by some of the most highly regarded poetry critics! a companion to twentieth-century English poetry. The opening section on contexts will both orientate readers relatively new to the field and provide stimulating overviews for those already familiar with it. Following the terms introduced by this section! individual chapters cover various issues relating to the 'modern'! the 'modernist' and the 'postmodern'! giving readers a firm grasp of the issues involved in these terms and a view of their relative usefulness and applicability. Poets extensively discussed include Edward Thomas! D. H. Lawrence! Wilfred Owen! W. H. Auden! Keith Douglas! William Empson! Philip Larkin! R. S. Thomas! Stevie Smith! Ted Hughes! Geoffrey Hill! Tony Harrison! Linton Kwesi Johnson! Edwin Morgan! Simon Armitage and Carol Ann Duffy. Zusammenfassung The last century was characterised by an extraordinary flowering of the art of poetry in Britain. These specially commissioned essays by highly regarded poetry critics offer a stimulating and reliable overview of English poetry of the twentieth century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Chronology; Preface; Part I. Contexts: 1. Victorian to modern Timothy Webb; 2. Modernist poetic form Daniel Albright; 3. Postmodern poetry in Britain Redell Olsen; Part II. Moderns: 4. Fateful forms: A. E. Housman, Charlotte Mew, Thomas Hardy and Edward Thomas Peter Howarth; 5. D. H. Lawrence's place in modern poetry Sandra Gilbert; 6. Wilfred Owen and the poetry of war Neil Corcoran; Part III. Modernists: 7. The 1930s poetry of W. H. Auden Michael O'Neill; 8. Keith Douglas and the poetry of the Second World War Adam Piette; 9. Languages of modernism: William Empson, Dylan Thomas, W. S. Graham Edward Larrissy; Part IV. Later Modernities: 10. Philip Larkin: a late modern poet Stephen Regan; 11. R. S. Thomas and modern Welsh poetry M. Wynn Thomas; 12. Gender, feminism, poetry: Stevie Smith, Sylvia Plath, Jo Shapcott Linda Anderson; 13. Varieties of poetic sequence: Ted Hughes and Geoffrey Hill Kevin Hart; 14. Black British poetry and the translocal Jahan Ramazani; 15. Poetry and class: Tony Harrison, Peter Reading, Ken Smith, Sean O'Brien Neil Roberts; 16. A Scottish Renaissance: Edwin Morgan, Douglas Dunn, Liz Lochhead, Robert Crawford, Don Paterson, Kathleen Jamie Fiona Stafford; 17. Lyric adaptations: James Fenton, Craig Raine, Christopher Reid, Simon Armitage, Carol Ann Duffy John Redmond....
