Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry : Hardy to Mahon

by Editor: Michael O'Neill (Durham University, UK); Editor: Madeleine Callaghan

• ISBN13: 9781444393521
• ISBN10: 1444393529
• Copyright: 2011-07-01
• 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 volumes larger themes Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet