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A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture) - Softcover

 
9781118646946: A Concise Companion to Postwar British and Irish Poetry (Concise Companions to Literature and Culture)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1118646940 ISBN 13: 9781118646946
Verlag: *Wiley-Blackwell, 2014

Inhaltsangabe

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

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Nigel Alderman is Associate Professor of English at Mount Holyoke College

C. D. Blanton is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Berkeley

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This Concise Companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Written by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and complemented by a general chronology detailing some of the most important writers, volumes, and events of recent decades, these essays provide contexts for critical reading, situating the central issues confronting post-war British and Irish poets within the wider framework of twentieth-century poetry.

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This Concise Companion introduces students to the most important poetic figures, movements, contexts, and trends in post-war British and Irish poetry, providing a much-needed reference point in a sprawling and often contentious field. Written by critics on both sides of the Atlantic and complemented by a general chronology detailing some of the most important writers, volumes, and events of recent decades, these essays provide contexts for critical reading, situating the central issues confronting post-war British and Irish poets within the wider framework of twentieth-century poetry.

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Verlag
*Wiley-Blackwell
Erscheinungsdatum
2014
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1118646940
ISBN 13 
9781118646946
Einband
Taschenbuch
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
336
Herausgeber
Alderman Nigel, Blanton C. D.
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