The Cambridge Companion to British Poetry, 1945-2010

ISBN-13: 9781107090668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2015 / 310 str.

Edward Larrissy

Opis

This Companion brings together sixteen essays that explore the full diversity of British poetry since the Second World War.

Recenzje

'This volume meets the high standards we expect from the Cambridge Companion series. Each contributor is an academic with expertise in the area on which they write. Each chapter is engagingly and accessibly written, providing a necessarily selective overview of the subject.' Languages and Literature

Spis treści

1. Poets of the forties and early fifties: the last Romantics? C. D. Blanton; 2. The movement Patrick Deane; 3. Survivors: modernists and thirties poets John Matthias; 4. Beyond all this fiddle Eric Falci; 5. Poetry and performance: the Mersey poets, the children of Albion, and performance poetry Cornelia Grabner; 6. High late modernists or postmodernists? Simon Perril; 7. Stretching the lyric: the metaphor men, new narrative poetry, and other ruses Natalie Pollard; 8. Poetry and class Sandie Byrne; 9. Northern Irish poetry Fran Brearton; 10. Scottish poetry Alan Riach; 11. Welsh poetry Katie Gramich; 12. Black British poetry Sarah Lawson Welsh; 13. Poetry, feminism, gender and women's experience Jan Montefiore; 14. Ecopoetics Fiona Becket; 15. Poetry and the city Peter Barry; 16. Outward forms Jon Glover.