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Informationen zum Autor MICHAEL O'NEILL is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. Recent books include, as editor, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010). He received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel, was published in 2008. MADELEINE CALLAGHAN is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Sheffild University and has published articles on Shelley and Byron. Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period to the present. She is currently preparing a book on Byron, Shelley and Yeats for publication. Klappentext 'This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O'Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts from classic critical studies. Broad in scope, deep in insight, clear in historical exposition and always attentive to the verbal make-up of particular poems and imaginative worlds, Twentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.' John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge 'Both formally attuned and contextually alert, the author-editors have here selected passages from the best recent critics and interwoven them with their own informed and illuminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modern poetry and its implication within a diverse range of literary traditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companion to one of the great ages of poetry in English.' Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth century. The editors also supply their own stimulating readings of the poetry. Through an insightful narrative - which points up the major features of the poets and the chosen excerpts - Michael O'Neill and Madeleine Callaghan knit together contributions by major critics, including essays by a number of distinguished poet-critics such as Geoffrey Hill, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin. Featured poets include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Owen, Lawrence, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, MacDiarmid, Stevie Smith, Plath, Heaney, Mahon and many others. Zusammenfassung Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements viii Introduction 1 1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma 11 Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen Thomas Hardy 11 Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism 17 Peter Howarth Edward Thomas 30 Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas 33 Andrew Motion Wilfred Owen 37 Extract from Poetry of Mourning 41 Jahan Ramazani 2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart 57 W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence W. B. Yeats 57 Extract from Our Secret Discipline 63 Helen Vendler T. S. Eliot 71 Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices 77 Calvin Bedient D. H. Lawrence 83 Extract from 'Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers' 87 Tom Paulin 3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires 94 W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender W. H. Auden 94 Extract from 'The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden' 98 Michael O'Neill Louis MacNeice 108 Ex...
