Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon

Author:   Michael O'Neill (Durham University, UK) ,  Madeleine Callaghan (Durham University, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
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9780631215103


Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 January 2011
Format:   Paperback
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Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry ‘This authoritative yet accessible book carries the reader deep into the rewards of modern poetry. O’Neill and Callaghan combine their own subtly informed accounts of the work of leading poets with judiciously chosen extracts from classic critical studies. Broad in scope, deep in insight, clear in historical exposition and always attentive to the verbal make-up of particular poems and imaginative worlds, Twentieth-Century British Poetry: Hardy to Mahon is at once an introduction and a revisitable archive, full of sustaining guidance.’ John Kerrigan, University of Cambridge ‘Both formally attuned and contextually alert, the author-editors have here selected passages from the best recent critics and interwoven them with their own informed and illuminating commentary, revealing both the innovation of modern poetry and its implication within a diverse range of literary traditions. Altogether, the book provides an invaluable companion to one of the great ages of poetry in English.’ Seamus Perry, Balliol College, Oxford Twentieth-Century British and Irish Poetry: Hardy to Mahon offers an accessible and imaginative guide to the criticism of British and Irish poetry in the twentieth century. The editors also supply their own stimulating readings of the poetry. Through an insightful narrative – which points up the major features of the poets and the chosen excerpts – Michael O’Neill and Madeleine Callaghan knit together contributions by major critics, including essays by a number of distinguished poet-critics such as Geoffrey Hill, Andrew Motion and Tom Paulin. Featured poets include Hardy, Yeats, Eliot, Owen, Lawrence, Auden, Dylan Thomas, Larkin, MacDiarmid, Stevie Smith, Plath, Heaney, Mahon and many others.

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Author:   Michael O'Neill (Durham University, UK) ,  Madeleine Callaghan (Durham University, UK)
Publisher:   John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Imprint:   Wiley-Blackwell
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.80cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9780631215103


ISBN 10:   0631215107
Pages:   320
Publication Date:   07 January 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Acknowledgements. Introduction. 1 Modern Poetry: Transition and Trauma (Thomas Hardy, Edward Thomas and Wilfred Owen). Thomas Hardy Extract from British Poetry in the Age of Modernism (Peter Howarth). Edward Thomas Extract from The Poetry of Edward Thomas (Andrew Motion). Wilfred Owen Extract from Poetry of Mourning (Jahan Ramazani). 2 Forms of Modernism: Things Fall Apart (W. B. Yeats, T. S. Eliot and D. H. Lawrence). W. B. Yeats Extract from Our Secret Discipline (Helen Vendler). T. S. Eliot Extract from He Do the Police in Different Voices (Calvin Bedient). D. H. Lawrence Extract from 'Hibiscus and Salvia Flowers' (Tom Paulin). 3 Poetry of the Thirties: Between Two Fires (W. H. Auden, Louis MacNeice and Stephen Spender). W. H. Auden Extract from 'The 1930s Poetry of W. H. Auden' (Michael O'Neill). Louis MacNeice Extract from Louis MacNeice (Peter McDonald). Stephen Spender Extracts from The Ironic Harvest (Geoffrey Thurley). 4 Poetry of the Forties: Realism and Rhetoric (Keith Douglas and Dylan Thomas). Keith Douglas Extract from 'I in Another Place' (Geoffrey Hill). Dylan Thomas Extract from The Romantic Survival (John Bayley). 5 Post-War Poetry: Feature less Morning, Featureless Night (Philip Larkin and the Movement). Philip Larkin Extract from Out of Reach (Andrew Swarbrick). The Movement Extract from The Movement (Blake Morrison). 6 Beyond the Movement: No Bloodless Myth (Ted Hughes, Sylvia Plath and Geoffrey Hill). Ted Hughes Extract from 'Ted Hughes: The Double Voice' (Margaret Dickie). Sylvia Plath Extract from Sylvia Plath and the Theatre of Mourning (Christina Britzolakis). Geoffrey Hill Extract from 'History to the Defeated' (Alan Robinson). 7 Situated Sequences and Marginal Voices (Basil Bunting, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, Stevie Smith and Tony Harrison). Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Kinsella, and Basil Bunting Extracts from The Modern Poetic Sequence (M. L. Rosenthal and Sally M. Gall). Stevie Smith Extract from A History of Twentieth-Century British Women's Poetry (Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle). Tony Harrison Extract from The Poetry of Tony Harrison (Luke Spencer). 8 Northern Irish Poetry: The Poles of Our Condition (Seamus Heaney and Derek Mahon). Seamus Heaney Extracts from The Poetry of Seamus Heaney (Neil Corcoran). Derek Mahon Extract from Poetry in the Wars (Edna Longley). Afterword. Recommended Reading. Index.

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The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals. ( Cercles , 2012)


?The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work as a classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals.? (Cercles, 2012)


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)


The editors have admirably carried out their self-imposed tasks ... The somewhat complicated arrangement is amply justified if one considers the work asa classroom tool, aimed primarily at giving a student audience food for thought, Helen Goethals. ( Cercles , 2012)


Author Information

MICHAEL O’NEILL is Professor of English at Durham University. He has published books, chapters and articles on many aspects of Romantic, Victorian and twentieth- and twenty-first-century poetry. Recent books include, as editor, The Cambridge History of English Poetry (2010). He received a Cholmondeley Award for Poets for his own poetry in 1990 and his second collection of poems, Wheel, was published in 2008. MADELEINE CALLAGHAN is Lecturer in Romantic Literature at Sheffild University and has published articles on Shelley and Byron. Her research interests focus on poetry from the Romantic period to the present. She is currently preparing a book on Byron, Shelley and Yeats for publication.

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