Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry / Edition 1

by Michael Thurston, Nigel Alderman

Overview

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

 

 

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780470657317
Publisher:	Wiley
Publication date:	01/28/2014
Series:	Wiley Blackwell Reading Poetry , #2
Pages:	352
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

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.

 

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Table of Contents

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