Featuring contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century * Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses * Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts * Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes * Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet
Michael O'Neill is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK. He has published numerous books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian, and contemporary poetry. He received the Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990.
Madeleine Callaghan received her PhD from the University of Durham, UK. Her research interests extend throughout the Romantic period's poetry and prose and twentieth-century and Victorian poetry. She is currently preparing her thesis for publication and working on a new monograph on poetic influence in Wordsworth, Byron and Yeats.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen 2. Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence 3. Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender 4. Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas 5. Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night 6. Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill 7. Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison 8. Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon Afterword Recommended Reading Index
Show moreFeaturing contributions from some of the major critics of contemporary poetry, Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry offers an accessible, imaginative, and highly stimulating body of critical work on the evolution of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth-century * Covers all the poets most commonly studied at university level courses * Features criticisms of British and Irish poetry as seen from a wide variety of perspectives, movements, and historical contexts * Explores current debates about contemporary poetry, relating them to the volume's larger themes * Edited by a widely respected poetry critic and award-winning poet
Michael O'Neill is Professor of English and Director of the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK. He has published numerous books, chapters, and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian, and contemporary poetry. He received the Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990.
Madeleine Callaghan received her PhD from the University of Durham, UK. Her research interests extend throughout the Romantic period's poetry and prose and twentieth-century and Victorian poetry. She is currently preparing her thesis for publication and working on a new monograph on poetic influence in Wordsworth, Byron and Yeats.
Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen 2. Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence 3. Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender 4. Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas 5. Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night 6. Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill 7. Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison 8. Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon Afterword Recommended Reading Index
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Introduction 1
1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma 11
Thomas
Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen
Thomas Hardy 11
Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism 17
Peter Howarth
Edward Thomas 30
Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas 33
Andrew Motion
Wilfred Owen 37
Extract from Poetry of Mourning 41
Jahan Ramazani
2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart 57
W. B.
Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence
W. B. Yeats 57
Extract from Our Secret Discipline 63
Helen Vendler
T. S. Eliot 71
Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices 77
Calvin Bedient
D. H. Lawrence 83
Extract from ‘Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers’ 87
Tom Paulin
3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires 94
W. H.
Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender
W. H. Auden 94
Extract from ‘The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden’ 98
Michael O’Neill
Louis MacNeice 108
Extract from Louis MacNeice 112
Peter McDonald
Stephen Spender 120
Extracts from The Ironic Harvest 123
Geoffrey Thurley
4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric 129
Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas
Keith Douglas 130
Extract from ‘I in Another Place’ 133
Geoffrey Hill
Dylan Thomas 141
Extract from The Romantic Survival 144
John Bayley
5 Post-War Poetry: Featureless Morning, Featureless Night
149
Philip Larkin and the Movement
Philip Larkin 149
Extract from Out of Reach 154
Andrew Swarbrick
The Movement 162
Extract from The Movement 166
Blake Morrison
6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth 178
Ted
Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill
Ted Hughes 179
Extract from ‘Ted Hughes: The Double Voice’ 182
Margaret Dickie
Sylvia Plath 187
Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning 191
Christina Britzolakis
Geoffrey Hill 200
Extract from ‘History to the Defeated’ 203
Alan Robinson
7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices 214
Basil
Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony
Harrison
Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting 214
Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence 218
M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall
Stevie Smith 230
Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women’s Poetry
232
Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle
Tony Harrison 234
Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison 237
Luke Spencer
8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition
245
Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon
Seamus Heaney 245
Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney 250
Neil Corcoran
Derek Mahon 259
Extract from Poetry in the Wars 263
Edna Longley
Afterword 267
Recommended Reading 272
Index 290
Michael O Neill is Professor of English and Directorof the Institute of Advanced Study at Durham University, UK. He haspublished numerous books, chapters, and articles on many aspects ofRomantic, Victorian, and contemporary poetry. He received theCholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990. Madeleine Callaghan received her PhD from the Universityof Durham, UK. Her research interests extend throughout theRomantic period s poetry and prose and twentieth-centuryand Victorian poetry. She is currently preparing her thesis forpublication and working on a new monograph on poetic influence inWordsworth, Byron and Yeats.
The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposedtasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justifiedif one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarilyat giving a student audience food for thought, HelenGoethals. (Cercles, 2012)
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