Thurston / Alderman Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry

1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-118-61985-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 352 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: Blackwell Reading Poetry

Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream andexperimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview,Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers atall levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic workspublished in Britain and Ireland over the lasthalf-century.
* Features detailed discussions of individual poems that arewidely 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 ofliterary possibility in which poets worked
* Includes poets of all types and styles from throughout thepost-war period, including canonical and mainstream poets alongsideexperimental poets, women, and poets of color

Autoren/Hrsg.

Thurston, Michael

Alderman, Nigel

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

Michael Thurston his Professor of English at SmithCollege. In addition to books on American political poets and theUnderworld descent in twentieth-century poetry, he has publishednumerous essays on twentieth-century poetry.
Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at MountHolyoke College. He has published on both nineteenth- andtwentieth-century poetry.