Blackwell Guides to Criticism: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon
Blackwell Guides to Criticism: Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon
Editor/Author
O'Neill, Michael and Callaghan, Madeleine
Publication Year: 2011
Publisher: Wiley
ISBN: 978-0-631-21509-7
Category: Language & Literature - British literature
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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. Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses. Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts. Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes. Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet.
Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- 1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma - Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen
- Thomas Hardy
- Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism - Peter Howarth
- Edward Thomas
- Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas - Andrew Motion
- Wilfred Owen
- Extract from Poetry of Mourning - Jahan Ramazani
- 2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart - W. B. Yeats; T. S. Eliot; D. H. Lawrence
- W. B. Yeats
- Extract from Our Secret Discipline - Helen Vendler
- T. S. Eliot
- Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices - Calvin Bedient
- D. H. Lawrence
- Extract from ‘Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers’ - Tom Paulin
- 3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires - W. H. Auden; Louis MacNeice; Stephen Spender
- W. H. Auden
- Extract from ‘The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden’ - Michael O’Neill
- Louis MacNeice
- Extract from Louis MacNeice - Peter McDonald
- Stephen Spender
- Extracts from The Ironic Harvest - Geoffrey Thurley
- 4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric - Keith Douglas; Dylan Thomas
- Keith Douglas
- Extract from ‘I in Another Place’ - Geoffrey Hill
- Dylan Thomas
- Extract from The Romantic Survival - John Bayley
- 5 Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night - Philip Larkin and the Movement
- Philip Larkin
- Extract from Out of Reach - Andrew Swarbrick
- The Movement
- Extract from The Movement - Blake Morrison
- 6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth - Ted Hughes; Sylvia Plath; Geoffrey Hill
- Ted Hughes
- Extract from ‘Ted Hughes: The Double Voice’ - Margaret Dickie
- Sylvia Plath
- Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning - Christina Britzolakis
- Geoffrey Hill
- Extract from ‘History to the Defeated’ - Alan Robinson
- 7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices - Basil Bunting; Hugh MacDiarmid; Thomas Kinsella; Stevie Smith; Tony Harrison
- Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting
- Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence - M. L. Rosenthal; Sally M. Gall
- Stevie Smith
- Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry - Jane Dowson; Alice Entwistle
- Tony Harrison
- Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison - Luke Spencer
- 8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition - Seamus Heaney; Derek Mahon
- Seamus Heaney
- Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney - Neil Corcoran
- Derek Mahon
- Extract from Poetry in the Wars - Edna Longley
- Afterword
- Recommended Reading