Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry
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20th century literature
20th century poetry
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British poetry
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contemporary poetry
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Ezra Pound
Gwendolyn Brooks
John Ashbery
literary analysis
literary history
poetic form
post-modernism
postcolonial poetry
Robert Lowell
Sylvia Plath
T.S. Eliot
Ted Hughes
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- ISBN 9780470657317
- Weight: 585g
- Dimensions: 160 x 236mm
- Publication Date: 03 Jan 2014
- Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
