A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry

Nigel Alderman, C. D. Blanton, Nigel Alderman, C. D. Blanton

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2013
• Print ISBN:
  9781118646946
  9781405129244
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781118836019
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism in Poetry
• Index: Literature

This volume introduces students to the most important figures, movements and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry.

• An historical overview and critical introduction to the poetry published in Britain and Ireland over the last half-century
• Introduces students to figures including Philip Larkin, Ted Hughes, Seamus Heaney, and Andrew Motion
• Takes an integrative approach, emphasizing the complex negotiations between the British and Irish poetic traditions, and pulling together competing tendencies and positions
• Written by critics from Britain, Ireland, and the United States
• Includes suggestions for further reading and a chronology, detailing the most important writers, volumes and events

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series page
• Copyright page
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgments
• Chronology
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Poetic Modernism and the Century’s Wars
• Chapter 2: The Movement and the Mainstream
• Chapter 3: Myth, History, and The New Poetry
• Chapter 4: Region and Nation in Britain and Ireland
• Chapter 5: Form and Identity in Northern Irish Poetry
• Chapter 6: Poetry and Decolonization
• Chapter 7: Transatlantic Currents
• Chapter 8: Neo-Modernism and Avant-Garde Orientations
• Chapter 9: Contemporary British Women Poets and the Lyric Subject
• Chapter 10: Place, Space, and Landscape
• Chapter 11: Poetry and Religion
• Chapter 12: Institutions of Poetry in Postwar Britain
• References
• Index