Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon

Herausgeber: O'Neill, Michael; Callaghan, Madeleine

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Blackwell Guides to Criticism Nr.20
• Verlag: BLACKWELL PUBL
• New
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: Januar 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 590g
• ISBN-13: 9780631215097
• ISBN-10: 0631215093
• Artikelnr.: 33269575

Autorenporträt

Michael O'Neill is Professor of English at DurhamUniversity. He has published books, chapters, and articles onmany aspects of Romantic, Victorian, and twentieth- andtwenty-first century poetry. Recent books include, as editor,The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010) Hereceived a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel was publishedin 2008.

Madeleine Callaghan is a lecturer in English at SheffieldUniversity and has published articles on Shelley and Byron. Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period tothe present. She is currently preparing a book on Wordsworth,Byron and Yeats for publication.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements

Introduction

1. Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma
Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen

2. Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart
W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence

3. Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires
W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender

4. Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric
Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas

5. Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, FeaturelessNight

6. Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth Ted Hughes,Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill

7. Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices Basil Bunting,Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and TonyHarrison

8. Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition
Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon

Afterword

Recommended Reading

Index

Rezensionen

"The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposedtasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justifiedif one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarilyat giving a student audience food for thought, HelenGoethals." (Cercles, 2012)

"Michael O'Neill has assembled some truly memorable contributionsto the criticism of twentieth-century poetry, all of themilluminating, some of them hard to come by in recent years,acquiring here the freshness of a renewed encounter after longabsence. Some belong to the same period as the poems and shed lighton a shared context."
--Edward Larrissy, Queen's University Belfast

"This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deepinto the rewards of modern poetry. O'Neill and Callaghan combinetheir own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poetswith 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 andimaginative worlds, /Twentieth-Century British Poetry/ is at oncean introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustainingguidance."
--John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge

"Both formally attuned and contextually alert, theauthor-editors have here selected passages from the best recentcritics and interwoven them with their own informed andilluminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modernpoetry and its implication within a diverse range of literarytraditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companionto one of the great ages of poetry in English."
--Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford