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Madeleine Callaghan is a lecturer in English at Sheffield University and has published articles on Shelley and Byron. Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period to the present. She is currently preparing a book on Wordsworth, Byron and Yeats for publication.
Acknowledgements | p. viii |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma | p. 11 |
Thomas Hardy | p. 11 |
Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism | p. 17 |
Edward Thomas | p. 30 |
Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas | p. 33 |
Wilfred Owen | p. 37 |
Extract from Poetry of Mourning | p. 41 |
Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart | p. 57 |
W.B. Yeats | p. 57 |
Extract from Our Secret Discipline | p. 63 |
T.S. Eliot | p. 71 |
Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices | p. 77 |
D.H. Lawrence | p. 83 |
Extract from 'Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers' | p. 87 |
Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires | p. 94 |
W.H. Auden | p. 94 |
Extract from 'The 1930s Poetry of W.H. Auden' | p. 98 |
Louis MacNeice | p. 108 |
Extract from Louis MacNeice | p. 112 |
Stephen Spender | p. 120 |
Extracts from The Ironic Harvest | p. 123 |
Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric | p. 129 |
Keith Douglas | p. 130 |
Extract from 'I in Another Place' | p. 133 |
Dylan Thomas | p. 141 |
Extract from The Romantic Survival | p. 144 |
Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night | p. 149 |
Philip Larkin | p. 149 |
Extract from Out of Reach | p. 154 |
The Movement | p. 162 |
Extract from The Movement | p. 166 |
Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth | p. 178 |
Ted Hughes | p. 179 |
Extract from 'Ted Hughes: The Double Voice' | p. 182 |
Sylvia Plath | p. 187 |
Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning | p. 191 |
Geoffrey Hill | p. 200 |
Extract from 'History to the Defeated' | p. 203 |
Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices Basil Bunting | p. 214 |
Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting | p. 214 |
Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence | p. 218 |
Stevie Smith | p. 230 |
Extracts from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry | p. 232 |
Tony Harrison | p. 234 |
Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison | p. 237 |
Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition | p. 245 |
Seamus Heaney | p. 245 |
Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney | p. 250 |
Derek Mahon | p. 259 |
Extract from Poetry in the Wars | p. 263 |
Afterword | p. 267 |
Recommended Reading | p. 272 |
Index | p. 290 |
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