The Twentieth Century in Poetry

by Childs *DO NOT USE*; Peter

• ISBN13: 9780415171007
• ISBN10: 0415171008
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-12-17
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Until now, most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. In The Twentieth Century in Poetry Peter Childs places literature in a wider social context and demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on:* the Georgians* First World War poetry* Eliot* Yeats* the thirties* post-war poetry* contemporary anthologies* women's poetry* Northern Irish and black British poetsIt builds a narrative not of poetry in the twentieth century, but of the twentieth century in poetry.

Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements	ix
Introduction	1	(12)
1 `Union Jacks in every part': prewar and Georgian poetry	13	(27)
2 `Not concerned with Poetry': World War I	40	(22)
3 `Birth, and copulation, and death': the 1920s and T.S. Eliot	62	(21)
4 `Demon and Beast': the 1920s and W.B. Yeats	83	(19)
5 In/between the wars: poetry in the 1930s	102	(21)
6 `Philosophical sundials of history': poetry after the war	123	(21)
7 `Ted Hughes Is Elvis Presley': recent anthologies by men	144	(16)
8 `My history is not yours': recent anthologies by women	160	(20)
9 Anti- and post-colonial writing: Northern Irish and black British poets	180	(25)
Notes	205	(7)
Bibliography	212	(12)
Index	224