Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

• ISBN13: 9781405184823
• ISBN10: 1405184825
• Edition: 1st
• Format: eBook
• Copyright: 2008-02-27
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

This Concise Companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Written by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and complemented by a general chronology detailing some of the most important writers, volumes, and events of recent decades, these essays provide contexts for critical reading, situating the central issues confronting post-war British and Irish poets within the wider framework of twentieth-century poetry.

Author Biography

Nigel Alderman is assistant professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He previously taught at Yale University where he was awarded the Sidonie Miskimin Clauss Prize for Teaching Excellence in the Humanities and the Sarai Ribicoff Award for the Encouragement of Teaching at Yale College. He has published on both Romantic and Modern poetry and is completing a book on British literature of the sixties.

C. D. Blanton is assistant professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley, where he teaches modern poetry. He has previously taught at Princeton University. He is currently completing a study of late modernist British poetry entitled Aftereffects, and together with Nigel Alderman he has edited Pocket Epics: British Poetry After Modernism.

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors.

Acknowledgments.

Chronology.

Introduction: Nigel Alderman (Mount Holyoke College) & C. D. Blanton (University of California, Berkeley).

1. Poetic Modernism and the Century’s Wars: Vincent Sherry (Washington University in St Louis).

2. The Movement of the Mainstream: Stephen Burt (Harvard University).

3. Myth, History and The New Poetry:   Nigel Alderman (Mount Holyoke College).

4. Region and Nation in Britian and Ireland: Michael Thurston (Smith College).

5. Form and Identity in the Northern Irish Poetry: John P. Waters (New York University).

6. Poetry and Decolonization Jahan Ramazani: (Unviersity of Virginia).

7. Transatlantic Currents: C. D. Blanton (University of California, Berkeley).

8. Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations: Drew Milne (University of Cambridge).

9. Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject: Linda A Kinnahan (Duquesne University).

10. Place, Space, and Landscape: Eric Falci (University of California, Berkeley).

11. Poetry and Religion: Romana Huk (University of Notre Dame).

12. Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain: Peter Middleton (University of Southampton).

References.

Index.