Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry Hardy to Mahon

by O'Neill, Michael; Callaghan, Madeleine

• ISBN13: 9780631215103
• ISBN10: 0631215107
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-31
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

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 Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet

Author Biography

Michael O’Neill is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK. He has published numerous books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian, and contemporary poetry. He received the Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990.

Madeleine Callaghan received her PhD from the University of Durham, UK. Her research interests extend throughout the Romantic period’s poetry and prose and twentieth-century and Victorian poetry. She is currently preparing her thesis for publication and working on a new monograph on poetic influence in Wordsworth, Byron and Yeats.

Table of Contents

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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