The Twentieth Century in Poetry

ISBN-13: 9780415171014 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 256 str.

Peter Childs

Opis

This text examines both English poetry through the events of the 20th century and British history through its representations in recent poetry. It builds a narrative not of poetry in the 20th century but of the 20th century in poetry. A high proportion of literature courses include an exploration of the issues of gender, ethnicity, theory, nationality, politics and social class. But until now most teaching has focused on the novel as the most useful way of raising these issues. Peter Childs demonstrates that all poetry is historically produced and consumed and is part of our understanding of society and identity. This student-friendly critical survey includes chapters on: the Georgians; First World War poetry; Eliot; Yeats; the thirties; post-war poetry; contemporary anthologies; women's poetry; and Northern Irish and black British poets. Placing literature in a wider social context, this book examines the way in which recent theory has questioned divisions between history and literature, between text and event, between society and the individual.

Recenzje

'This book will be a useful reference tool.' - - Barbara Wensworth, Speech and Drama

Spis treści

Preface and Acknowledgements Introduction 1. 'Union Jacks in every part': Prewar and Georgian Poetry 2.'Not concerned with Poetry': The First World War 3. 'Birth, and copulation, and death': the 1920s and T.S. Eliot 4. 'Demon and Beast': the 1920s and W.B. Yeats 5. In/Between the Wars: Poetry in the 1930s 6. 'Philosophical Sundials of History': Poetry after the War 7. 'Ted Hughes is Elvis Presley': Recent Anthologies by Men 8. 'My history is not yours': Recent Anthologies by Women 9. Anti- and Post-Colonial Writing: Northern Irish and Black British Poets

O autorze

Peter Childs