{"product_id":"a-companion-to-twentiethcentury-poetry-9781405113618","title":"A Companion to TwentiethCentury Poetry","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn the twentieth century more people spoke English and more people wrote poetry than in the whole of previous history, and this \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e strives to make sense of this crowded poetical era. The original contributions by leading international scholars and practising poets were written as the contributors adjusted to the idea that the possibilities of twentieth-century poetry were exhausted and finite. However, the volume also looks forward to the poetry and readings that the new century will bring. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003eThe \u003ci\u003eCompanion\u003c\/i\u003e embraces the extraordinary development of poetry over the century in twenty English-speaking countries; a century which began with a bipolar transatlantic connection in modernism and ended with the decentred heterogeneity of post-colonialism. Representation of the ''canonical'' and the ''marginal'' is therefore balanced, including the full integration of women poets and feminist approaches and the in-depth treatment of post-colonial poets from various nat\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Roberts has brought together an extraordinary collection of 48 engagingly written and informative essays. This reviewer is aware of no other volume covering the full range of English-language poetry in the twentieth century. Recommended for all collections, this title will be a welcome reference and guide for undergraduate students and useful for specialists.\"\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003e--Choice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgements ix\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors xi\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction 1\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNeil Roberts\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART I Topics and Debates\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1 Modernism and the Transatlantic Connection 7\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eHugh Witemeyer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2 Modernist Poetry and its Precursors 21\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter Brooker and Simon Perril\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3 The Non-modernist Modern 37\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Goldie\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4 Poetry and Politics 51\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eReed Way Dasenbrock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5 Poetry and War 64\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eMatthew Campbell\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6 Poetry and Science 76\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7 Poetry and Literary Theory 89\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJoanne Feit Diehl\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8 Poetry and Gender 101\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eEdward Larrissy\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9 Interrupted Monologue: Alternative Poets of the Mid-century 113\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Hobsbaum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART II Poetic Movements\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10 Imagism 127\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJacob Korg\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11 The New Negro Renaissance 138\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eWilliam W. Cook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12 Poetry and the New Criticism 153\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Burt and Jennifer Lewin\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e13 Black Mountain and Projective Verse 168\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Osborne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e14 The Beats 183\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Osborne\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e15 Confessionalism 197\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Collins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e16 The Movement 209\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Regan\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e17 Language Poetry 220\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSimon Perril\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART III International and Postcolonial Poetry in English\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e18 West Indian Poetry 235\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVictor Chang\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e19 African Poetry 249\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKwadwo Osei-Nyame\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e20 Poetry of the Indian Subcontinent 264\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eVinay Dharwadker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e21 Australian Poetry 281\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLivio Dobrez\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e22 New Zealand Poetry 293\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerry Sturm\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e23 Canadian Poetry 304\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eCynthia Messenger\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e24 Scottish Poetry 318\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJeffrey Skoblow\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e25 Welsh Poetry 329\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDouglas Houston\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e26 Irish Poetry to 1966 343\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Davis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART IV Readings\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e27 Thomas Hardy: Poems of 1912–13 359\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTim Armstrong\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e28 Robert Frost: North of Boston 369\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eAlex Calder\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e29 T. S. Eliot: The Waste Land 381\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJohn Haffenden\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e30 D. H. Lawrence: Birds, Beasts and Flowers 392\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Ellis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e31 William Carlos Williams: Spring and All 403\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLisa M. Steinman\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e32 Wallace Stevens: Harmonium 414\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePhilip Hobsbaum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e33 Marianne Moore: Observations 427\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eElizabeth Wilson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e34 W. B. Yeats: The Tower 437\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eTerence Brown\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e35 W. H. Auden: Poems 448\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e36 Elizabeth Bishop: North \u0026amp; South 457\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJonathan Ellis\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e37 Ezra Pound: The Pisan Cantos 469\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eA. David Moody\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e38 Robert Lowell: Life Studies 481\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eStephen Matterson\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e39 Louis MacNeice: The Burning Perch 491\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003ePeter McDonald\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e40 Sylvia Plath: Ariel 500\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSue Vice\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e41 Ted Hughes: Crow 513\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRand Brandes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e42 Seamus Heaney: North 524\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBernard O’Donoghue\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e43 John Ashbery: Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror 536\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eDavid Herd\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e44 Derek Walcott: Omeros 547\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBruce Woodcock\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePART V The Contemporary Scene\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e45 Contemporary American Poetry 559\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eRoger Gilbert\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e46 Contemporary British Poetry 571\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eSean O’Brien\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e47 Contemporary Irish Poetry 585\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLucy Collins\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e48 Contemporary Postcolonial Poetry 596\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eJahan Ramazani\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex 610\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"John Wiley and Sons Ltd","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49407848644951,"sku":"9781405113618","price":40.8,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781405113618.jpg?v=1730500729","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-twentiethcentury-poetry-9781405113618","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}