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Book SynopsisFrom Tottel's Miscellany (1557) to the last twentieth-century Oxford Book of English Verse (1999), anthologies have been a prime institution for the preservation and mediation of poetry. The importance of anthologies for creating and re-creating the canon of English poetry, for introducing ‘new' programmes of poetry, as a record of changing poetic fashions, audience tastes and reading practices, or as a profitable literary commodity has often been asserted. Despite its impact, however, the poetry anthology in itself has attracted surprisingly little critical interest in Britain or elsewhere in the English-speaking world. This volume is the first publication to explore the largely unmapped field of poetry anthologies in Britain. Essays written from a wide range of perspectives in literary and cultural studies, and the point of view of poets, editors, publishers and cultural institutions, aim to do justice to the typological, functional and historical variety with which this form of publication has manifested itself - from early modern print culture to the postmodern age of the world wide web.
Table of ContentsBarbara KORTE: Flowers to be picked: Anthologies of Poetry in (British) Literary and Cultural Studies. Robert CRAWFORD: Poetry, Memory, and the Nation. Jonathan BARKER: Poetry and Readers: A View from Diverse Councils. Tony LACEY: The Anthology Problem: A Publisher's View. Joerg O. FICHTE: Medieval Lyrics in Twentieth-Century Anthologies: Defining the Canon. Christoph BODE: Re-definitions of the Canon of English Romantic Poetry in Recent Anthologies. Arno LÖFFLER: Anthologising English Poetry for (German) Students. Iain GALBRAITH: Anthologizing Scottish Poetry. Christopher HARVIE: The Northern Muse. Julian LETHBRIDGE: The Anthology as a Guide to Early Modern Reading Practices. Monika GOMILLE: Anthologies of the Early Seventeenth Century: Aspects of Media and Authorship. Barbara BENEDICT: Connoisseurship and the Literary Collection. Christine BAATZ: Printing the Flowers: Aspects of Typography in Seventeenth and Eighteenth-Century Anthologies. The Case of Percy's Reliques. Stefanie LETHBRIDGE: Reading the Eighteenth-Century Long Poem as an Anthology. Klaus Peter MÜLLER: Victorian Values: Palgrave's Golden Treasury. Daniel GÖSKE: Transatlantic Modernism in Poetry Anthologies. Hans-Werner LUDWIG: Make It New: The Politics of Poetry Anthologies in English from the Sixties to the Present Day. Michael HULSE: The Critical Reception of The New Poetry. Ralf SCHNEIDER: Of Love, Cats and Football: Popular Anthologies in Britain Today - Between Culture and Commodity? Thomas ROMMEL: Eliza Doolittle and the Virtual Text: The Future of Electronic Anthologies.
