Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry
Autor: | Michael Thurston, Nigel Alderman |
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EAN: | 9781118619858 |
eBook Format: | PDF/ePUB |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Produktart: | eBook |
Veröffentlichungsdatum: | 05.11.2013 |
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Schlagworte: | 20th Century English Literature 20th century literature Adrienne Rich British poetry English literature Ezra Pound Gwendolyn Brooks John Ashbery Sylvia Plath T.S. Eliot Ted Hughes literary analysis literary history poetic form post-mode |
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Combining detailed explorations of both mainstream and experimental poets with a clear historical and literary overview, Reading Postwar British and Irish Poetry offers readers at all levels an ideal guide to the rich body of poetic works published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century.
- Features detailed discussions of individual poems that are widely available in anthologies and selected poems volumes
- Pays explicit attention to how to read the poems, focusing on language and form and the institutional conditions of literary possibility in which poets worked
- Includes poets of all types and styles from throughout the post-war period, including canonical and mainstream poets alongside experimental poets, women, and poets of color
Michael Thurston his Professor of English at Smith College. In addition to books on American political poets and the Underworld descent in twentieth-century poetry, he has published numerous essays on twentieth-century poetry.
Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College. He has published on both nineteenth- and twentieth-century poetry.